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If certain conditions are maintained within two months we will stop with serious repercussions on employment: there are 1,500 families at risk, which reaches 5,000 considering related industries ”. Gianbattista La Rocca, managing director of Italo-Ntv, is concerned, who in an interview with “la Repubblica” says that he still awaits a rethinking by the CTS, the Scientific Technical Committee, on the issue of the capacity limit of convoys. of the high speed imposed by the anti-Covid law that limits only Italo and Frecciarossa to 50% of the seats, while all local public transport can reach 80%, and that La Roccca itself defines as the “Harlequin standard” .
According to the CEO of Italo, “there is a disparity between means of transport and also between competing companies. Trenitalia, owned by a state company, also operates intercity and regional. They are grants drawn as we move forward on our own, without any public help. Our income depends solely on the tickets sold. We have two completely different economic accounts ”. “We work in unsustainable conditions for a company: today we don’t even cover operating costs”, La Rocca says while doing some calculations: “In 9 years we have bought 51 trains, which have to be paid for. The situation is unmanageable and I don’t want this to sound like a threat: it’s just realizing that with this level of income the company can’t keep up. If certain conditions are maintained – repeats La Rocca – from October 1 we will reduce services from 87 to 60 per day. So within two months we will stop having serious repercussions on the occupation.
In an interview with “Il Fatto Quotidiano”, the managing director of Ntv that manages the Italo trains also complained that “if it goes so well, high speed will no longer have a private competitor”. La Rocca asks the government to equate the AV to the rest of transport in the anti-Covid guidelines and allow a capacity of up to 80% while today it is stopped at 50. “If they do not change their mind, within two months we will be forced to stop the trains. We have a loss of 200 million and we will end the year in the red of 400 million. Impossible to support ”says the CEO of Italo, who comments:“ We are not against security, God forbid, but the rules are the same for everyone or not ”. Then he added: “There is a great disparity between the competitors. We live only on tickets, Trenitalia is also in regional services, which are subsidized, as is Intercity. On the one hand, an individual and on the other a subsidized company through other businesses. There is no party ”.
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