Italy's national airline Alitalia has cancelled 30 flights, a day after a consortium dropped plans to rescue it from going into liquidation.
Industry sources say Alitalia's licence may be suspended soon. Union officials on Thursday rejected a deal that would have cost thousands of jobs, leading the consortium to withdraw the one billion euro takeover offer. The failure is a setback to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who had made rescuing Alitalia and keeping it in Italian hands a matter of political prestige. The government holds a 49.9 percent share in Alitalia and has spent five billion euros in the last 15 years to keep Alitalia flying.
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