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Alitalia Says Bye Bye Pretty Pictures
Our favorite on-again, off-again airline Alitalia might be selling cheap airfares this week, but they're obviously still trying hard to scrape together a few more euros to keep fuel in the tank.
The latest news out of the Alitalia camp is that they're holding an auction to sell off 163 paintings that used to hang in their aircraft, apparently so that passengers would have "beautiful things" to look at.
Nobody's sure how much cash the paintings will bring in but some of them are from well-known modern Italian artists and are thought to be valuable. (Sounds like Alitalia's decadent spending starting way back in the 1960s.) We're less worried about Alitalia's obvious money problems than the fact that no other airline we know ever made such an effort to pretty up the cabin for us. Are we missing out on something beautiful?
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· Alitalia-Owned Artwork to Go Under the Hammer [Reuters]
· Our Top Five International Airfare Sales of the Moment [Jaunted]
· Alitalia Coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: courgettelawn]
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