Alitalia, Franco: Ita will have fewer routes and a smaller fleet
Alitalia: ok EU on discontinuity, Ita from August
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August 24, 2021ITA will start operations with 2,800 employees. It is when we read the press release sent by the company to the trade unions in view of the start of the confrontation. The staff, according to the note, "initially necessary for the start-up of the activities" is "equal, according to the Industrial Plan, to 2,800 employees", explains ITA, who says they are "available" to compose the staff "by evaluating also any job applications submitted by current Alitalia Sai employees ". The Plan also provides that the company can "subsequently increase the initial staff", up to "reaching the total maximum number of approximately 5,750 employees in 2025".
The contract
ITA intends to apply to its personnel the new national collective bargaining agreement for air transport - specific part of the carriers, "on condition that the new national collective labor agreement is renewed, by 20 September 2021, with discontinuous contents compared to the past and consistent with the needs of the Industrial Plan ". "The deadline of 20 September - explained in the press release sent to the trade unions - is indicated in order to allow the company, in the absence of an agreement, to develop alternative regulatory solutions". In the absence of an agreement, in fact, it is added, "ITA will define, with a specific company regulation, the transitional treatments applicable to personnel".
Aviation assets
ITA intends to complete the acquisition of the Aviation assets from Alitalia once the trade union discussions have been concluded, in any case not before 7 September. This can be read in the communication sent to the unions on the negotiation that will start from tomorrow's meeting. "Any binding agreement regarding the acquisition of the Aviation assets will be finalized once the trade union discussions started with this communication have been completed, in any case not before 7 September, it being understood that the start of the overall company operations is scheduled for 15 October ", writes the president of ITA Alfredo Altavilla.
Non-binding proposal to Alitalia
In a communication sent by the extraordinary commissioners of Alitalia to the trade unions, we read that "on 16 August ITA" formalized a non-binding proposal to Alitalia Sai in extraordinary administration and to Alitalia Cityliner in extraordinary administration for the purchase of the assets of the Aviation sector, consisting of in 52 aircraft and other tangible assets, slots, intellectual property rights and contracts. "
The fleet
In the negotiation for the purchase of the Aviation assets from Alitalia, ITA intends to acquire 52 aircraft. ITA informs the trade unions of its intention to proceed, once the trade union discussions have been completed, with the acquisition of some tangible and intangible assets of the extraordinary administration strictly connected to the Aviation area and including a total number of 52 aircraft, 7 Airbus 330, 44 Airbus 320 family, 1 Embrae ". The acquisition of the Aviation assets will allow ITA, it is specified," to start, in discontinuity, a new entrepreneurial activity according to original organizational forms ".