Originally Posted by
badatz
On my last 4 trips on Alitalia we were bussed both going and coming back.
I am flying with them tommorrow and fully expect the bus again.
I don't think that it is an operational issue but rather a question of money and possibly contributing to their lower cost structure.
By the way, the same thing happens in Rome. Busses all over the place.
An airline may choose buses only in general. But once an airline hasn't chosen that route, it becomes operational versus each airline choosing for any given flight how they'd like to deal with it.