The national strike by pilots and cabin crew, air traffic controllers, maintenance workers, baggage handlers, and catering personnel forced Alitalia to cancel 95 flights.
Most of the affected Alitalia flights were between Italian cities and other cities within Europe.
Unions gathered at the Transportation Ministry in Rome to demand “regulations against social dumping, a single national collective bargaining contract for the entire sector, and development and growth for Alitalia”, the Italian Labor Union (UIL) wrote on Twitter.
However, Transportation Minister Danilo Toninelli was not in the building, as he had just flown to Sicily to attend a two-day event on the island’s infrastructure.
“The Alitalia dossier is in the home stretch,” Toninelli said on Monday.
“If everything goes the way I think it will, we will not only rescue [the airline] with ill-spent public money as has been done for years, but we will relaunch it with investors whose core business is to fly planes.”
Alitalia has been under government receivership since May 2017 after going bankrupt due to debt of around €3 billion, according to legal documents posted on its corporate website.
