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A few years back I flew from Athens to Vienna via Milan with Alitalia vice versa. I have not flown with that many airlines (Air Canada, American Eagle, Thai, Austrian, Olympic, Lufthansa, Alitalia) but I from what I have witnessed Alitalia really impressed me.
The food was execellent.The crew were very friendly but not in a "strict" professional way but somehow cool. They took time to chat with the passengers, joked with them, had a real good time. They made the passengers really fell that they were welcomed not just because they paid for the flight, but also because they -the crew-realy injoyed their work. And yes the stewardesses were gorgeous
Long time ago I was on an Alitalia flight from Rome (FCO) to Munich (MUC -the old airport). After take-off the crew starts with the safety demonstration of course in Italian... Something like "Bienvenuti a bordo...etc etc questo aero va a MONACO....)
I was sitting next to approximatively 120kilos of Bavarian meat. This guys jumps up, and standing in front of the shaking steward, the Bavarian shouts in his face: Iche will nicht nach MONACO Ich vil nach Muenchen...
The poor shaking steward could not stammer a word. But I could help him out of situation by telling the Bavarian meat & fett mountain Monaco in Italian means Muenchen in German....
Guess where I continued the flight? Yes in F-class*. That's what you get when you save an Alitalia steward in big trouble.
Alitalia in the air is fantastic. Airportservices in Italy were doing the handling, this was long time a commercial handicap for Alitalia... As this doubled the chances a chopero occured: if it was not the airportservice, it was the airline... And really it did look like airportservice didn't care at all.
In may 1996 I flew ATH-FCO on AZ A300 I-BUSD.
I was seated in C-class ...all alone !
Imagine the security demo: the steward asked me if I was familiar with the safety 'show' ...and that was his perfect excuse not to do the safety demo.
Approx. 15 min. later I started reading my Belgian NL-newspaper that I'd bought the day before.
The steward promptly came to me speaking NL, he went to school in Genk (B) during the years that his father worked in the coalmines.
We started talking and talking and talking... he offered me a big bottle of Spumante to take along.
I continued reading the newspaper on the FCO-BRU flight.
