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Is a roadmap out of the nonsense really so bad? Alitalia may be different in some respects because it it Italian, but it still is a bellwether for Europe’s legacy airlines. Its fellow state airlines are looking at it closely for insight into how not to fail so dramatically.
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Italian airline carrier Alitalia denied on Thursday it had presented a new business plan.
In a statement, Alitalia said reports of job cuts, grounding of planes and cuts to routes were “completely groundless”.
Some Italian newspapers on Thursday said a new business plan for the loss-making airline envisaged 2,200 job cuts.
(Reporting by Stephen Jewkes; Editing by Agnieszka Flak)
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Photo Credit: Alitalia's logo is seen on top of the headquarters at Fiumicino international airport in Rome. Max Rossi / Reuters