Leaders discuss Alitalia future
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French and Italian leaders are to discuss the future of struggling airline Alitalia amid talk of an Air France merger.
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Shares in Alitalia rose on Monday after staff agreed job and pay cuts last week to keep the beleaguered airline flying. The firm&#39;s chief executive was holding a final meeting with unions in Rome on Monday
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MILAN Giancarlo Cimoli, chief executive of Alitalia, met Monday with unions representing its employees to find an accord on layoffs and restructuring that would save the Italian state-run airline.
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Air France-KLM appeared best placed to buy Alitalia, ahead of Italian company Air One, as Alitalia's board prepared to meet on Friday on which rescue plan to recommend to the government.
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Air France KLM said on Thursday it was in exploratory tie-up talks with Alitalia at the request of the Italian airline.Comment
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(AGI) - Rome, Italy, Sep. 14 - Negotiations between Alitalia and the professional pilots&#39; union have come to a dead end due to lack of agreement between ANPAC and Unione Piloti.
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Futuro lavoratori e' fondamentale nella discussione
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State carrier Alitalia could be faced with collapse within 20 days without the approval of a restructuring plan that would allow the airline to tap into a loan of 400 million euros (&#36;488 million), the company's chairman was quoted as saying in Italian news reports Tuesday.
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Air France KLM, under pressure from Rome to commit to a merger with Alitalia, announced exploratory talks with the ailing carrier on Thursday but reaffirmed conditions for a deal.Comment
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Air France-KLM and the financially troubled Italian airline Alitalia said they have begun tentative talks on a possible alliance, prompting Italian government suspicions about French intentions.
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LA DISCUSSIONE                                          Democratici e socialisti, il futuro Ã¨ l'Europa
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Amid around-the-clock negotiations with unions over a crucial rescue plan, Alitalia has sealed a deal with pilots that increased the airline&#39;s hopes of averting collapse.
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Alitalia headed into eleventh-hour talks with unions to clinch plans to avoid bankruptcy, after winning a key deal with pilots.
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Alitalia said Monday that it would meet with union representatives after nine labor groups demanded that the airline tell them its strategic and organizational plans, and called for government intervention in further talks.
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Near-bankrupt Alitalia held crucial contract negotiations with unions representing flight attendants and ground staff Wednesday in a last-minute attempt to save the state-controlled airline from collapse.
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President Giorgio Napolitano said Saturday a consensus had not yet emerged on the way forward for Italy after more talks with political leaders following the collapse of Romano Prodi's government.
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Alitalia will survive barring unexpected difficulties, the financially shaky airline's CEO said Thursday, indicating optimism over the possibility of forging a domestic partnership as part of strategy to save the state-run carrier.