Word: alitalia
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...Cesare Romiti, the director of Alitalia, put it: "Fiumicino is the worst airport in the world." At least 50% of the planes are late, some for as long as three hours. The reason: the airport has only two runways to accommodate 400 to 500 aircraft a day in peak seasons, and since the runways are built at right angles, they cannot be used simultaneously. Incoming passengers have to wait at least an hour for their luggage. As the baggage is plucked piece by piece from aircraft holds, baggage handlers-when not on strike-toss it on two long counters where...
JUAN DOMINGO PERÓN stepped from a chartered Alitalia DC-8 onto Argentine soil for the first time in 17 years last Friday, and into a steady rain. The weather was remarkably similar to that on the wet and dismal night in 1955 when he fled the country aboard an Uruguayan gunboat, after being ousted from power by a military coup. This time Perón, now 77, expected better on his self-styled mission of "peace and understanding." His survival and return after all these years had the stuff of great human drama. But instead of the million...
...house in the posh Buenos Aires suburb of Olivos for their old leader, who turned 77 last month. The house is only eight blocks from the presidential villa of Argentina's current strongman (and Peron's archfoe), Alejandro Lanusse. Peronistas have also chartered a DC-8 from Alitalia to fly their leader home. Aboard will be his third wife Isabelita, 41, several aides, household servants and numerous bodyguards, but not Eva, his second wife, who died in 1952 and is considered a saint by Argentina's descamisados, or shirtless ones. Her embalmed body, now lodged in a crystal-topped silver...
...example, the round-trip youth fare to Rome on Alitalia Airlines is $199. "This is crazy." Harold Rosenwald '27, attorney for HSA, said Wednesday. "We can't possibly compete with this...
...most Italians, the Easter holiday this year was more frustrating than festive. Alitalia was struck, which meant that both planes and plans had to be canceled. In a protest for higher wages, refinery workers sporadically cut delivery of the premium gasoline that most Italian cars require, thereby limiting autostrada excursions. (Enterprising urchins in Naples took advantage of the situation by selling mixtures of regular gas and cheap red wine as premium...