Alitalia - AZA > Reviews > Alitalia is the Dan Air of Italy.

Author's product rating:   

Food Quality	Very poor
Customer Service	Very unhelpful
Punctuality	Awful
Space	Uncomfortable
Value for Money	Satisfactory

Advantages:	Cheap
Disadvantages:	Life Threatening

Recommend to potential buyers:

no

Full review

Alitalia is the Dan Air of Italy.

With simply pathetic excuses for everything, I would avoid this airline like the plague!

My last flight with them was the most emotional, I had 3 flights to catch on the same day, all with Alitalia, my destination, Minsk, Belarus.

All 3 flights had the same "meal", a term used in the loosest of forms.

A sort of Cottage cheese and fungus roll, with a small glass of water, sounds delightful doesnt it, well this is all I ate for the day.

The staff leave a lot to be desired for, some air steward with the largest hair style in the world, and crumbs in his beared, insisted on making his prescence known to me as often as possible, and continuously kept stopping and rubbing his leg on my arm as he passed my seat, as if there wasnt enough room, and the flight stewardess who thought she was on a cat walk, but really should have had a slap, and reminded she was on a budget airline.

The Sopwith Camel I was flying on (I think a 747) was quite decrepid, obviously it passed its safety checks, and Im no expert, but the monitors for the safety video nearly sent me into an epeleptic fit as they flickkered their time old safety message about how only the Virigin Mary will be listening as we plummet to our deaths over the Alps.

The seat next to me was heavily stained, (Hence sitting next to the aisle for Alphonso to rub his thigh against me when he felt like) and to boot, just as I closed my eyes to try and sleep this nightmare off, a little door above my head popped down, revealing a set of 3 oxygen masks.

After putting one on, I looked around, to note, I was the only person who has such masks available to me, and everyone else was deadly calm.

The ground staff were rude, the flight was late, each time by 40 mins, and the last flight by 6 hours, and I simply cant take any more.

I have had better flights from third world country operators!

Avoid at all costs!