Hundreds of of employees of
privately owned Sardinian carrier Meridiana rallied Monday the
labor ministry in Rome ahead of a meeting between government,
management and unions over the company's plan to lay off 1,366
people.
Sources close to the company told ANSA that Meridiana was
set to begin laying people off immediately.
Also on Monday, the troubled airline began service on a
new Bologna-Naples route, with two flights a day Monday through
Friday.
The airline operating domestic, European and
intercontinental flights is owned by British business magnate
Aga Khan Prince Karim al-Hussayni, who founded it in 1963 to
promote tourism to Sardinia.
Meridiana pilots have berated the company's plan to lay
off 1,634 employees after what they said has been "a decade of
deranged executive decisions" and mismanagement by CEO Roberto
Scaramella, who "gave himself a 700,000-euro salary while the
company lost an estimated 200 million euros in 2014".
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