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18 June 2021 The facts: air transport is double-linked with tourism, these are the two sectors that have suffered the most from the pandemic and are struggling to get up. The contraction of the Italian airline sector and of foreign companies in our country is between 70% and 80% with peaks of 90% of turnover. Iata, the International Organization of Airlines, has estimated a recovery in world air transport in 2024.



Putting these data together, the shock in the world of air transport was tremendous. Today at the Fiumicino airport the employees of the national and foreign airlines operating in our country protested, where there are already "veiled" layoffs. Strike proclaimed by all unions.



The Emirates case

“Emirates - explains Federica Ricci of CGIL Filt - is one of the richest and most stable companies, operating on 4 airports: Milan, Rome, Bologna and Venice.

It is the first foreign company that despite the blocking of layoffs is already reducing company branches such as the cargo sector ”.

“The company - says Vincenzo Giorgio Fit Cisl - has already announced 62 redundancies out of 157 employees.

One thing that foreign companies may not have understood is that here we have social safety nets that allow us to save on labor costs ”. 



"What one must understand at an institutional level - continues Vincenzo Giorgio Fit Cisl - is that the world of air transport will need more time to take off, and in the meantime it risks a gigantic job collapse".

A sector that is still affected by the closures of some routes such as, to name one.

Brazil. 



Emirates is “a rich, healthy company - says Vincenzo Giorgio Fit Cisl - during the pandemic it closed with good results. In 20 years here in Italy, profits have risen. He opened the Route-Milan Dubai route. Now there is a certain objective world difficulty. First he used social safety nets and now we talk about restructuring which, read between the lines, means "firing". The routes on Rome and Milan and Dubai from 3 per day are now 1 per day. Route reopened in July 2020. In December 2020 Bologna Dubai opened, on June 1st Milan New York announcing the opening of 90% stopovers in the world from next July 1st ”. 



Hazardous places and other companies ashore

Cargo for medicines held up in the air sector: staying at home we all bought online and purchases fly by. But how many places are at risk? Thousands - Federica Ricci of Cgil Filt replies dryly - thousands of workers are at risk: only in Fiumicino there are 30/40 thousand employees then there is all the related industries. But it is like this in Lombardy, in Veneto, in Emilia Romagna. “The companies took advantage of the social safety nets, an instrument that cannot be used to save and then they started with the so-called restructuring. The aviation sector has a large induced activity that employs many people. It is a tsunami that involves Alitalia and Air Italy such as Blue Panorama and Air Dolomiti and Neos but also Norwegian and Ernest in liquidation and low cost EasyJet, RyanAir / Malta Air, Wizz Air, Vueling and Volotea,all foreign airlines based and employees in our country, airport management, handling and catering companies.



The green pass

What is the solution? “Many routes are closed, here is the knot. When - the unions argue - people will realize that they can resume a "normal" life they will perhaps have less "fear" and then they will resume flying. The Green Pass is fundamental. They will resume, albeit slowly, travel for work and business. Everyone wants to travel. The important thing is that in these years of recovery the workers remain within the perimeter of employment to get to the moment of recovery with the job ”. Only in this way can it take off.