EFFETTI DELLA RECENTE RIFORMA DELLA LEGGE FALLIMENTARE SUI CONTRATTI DEL TRASPORTO AEREO

The global economic crisis has affected Italian industry more than that of any other major European country. In 2011, the Italian Statistical Institute recorded the worst-ever drop in Italian domestic demand, which continues to plague the manufacturing sector. In the first 11 months of 2012, the cumulative drop was 9.3% compared to the same period two years ago. Inevitably, the crisis would affect an important sector of the national economy, such as air transportation, which, being transnational in character, suffered from the economic crisis that has had an impact on all European countries, and in particular because of the negative effects of the fuel price increases occurring at an international level. With the economic crisis hitting Italian industry hard, the Monti government introduced measures designed to enable Italian business to achieve rapid economic and financial recovery. These instruments were introduced into Italian law with the «Decreto Sviluppo» («Development Decree»: Decree-Law 22 June 2012 n. 83, passed into Law n. 134 of August 7, 2012). In the article below there is an analyses of the slew of measures employed by the Monti government, focusing on their implications for the air transport sector.