Ita, the former state Alitalia, flies to Sardinia only on weekends. Destination Piazza del Carmine, in the heart of Cagliari, seat of the TAR, the Regional Administrative Court. The mission of the men of the powerful Chiomenti & Parteners studio this time, however, is less belligerent than in the past. In a few months the flying leaders of the newly formed Italian company have gone from the peremptory "we will be readmitted to the race", pronounced by the two numbers one of Ita, to the inexorable and silent retreat of these last hours. The lawyers of the late Alitalia burst into the courtroom in the early hours of yesterday, with a surrender that was as unexpected as it was indecipherable. That stream of appeals that presented immediately after the exclusion from the tender for territorial continuity to and from Sardinia, awarded to the Spanish Volotea, was reduced, in the last weekend of the first month of the new year, to a small amount laughable judicial trickle.
The retreat
With a digital broadcast, the lawyers of Rome, the same ones who simultaneously wrote, lavishly paid, by name and on behalf of the Sardinian Region, the rules of territorial continuity, have decided to beat retreat. They did so formally on five of the six appeals they filed last November against their exclusion from the race, which was later won by the Spaniards. The accusation of the Region was without appeal: you do not have the planes to be able to fly on the routes of territorial continuity to and from Sardinia. Now, in the rooms of Piazza del Carmine, the surrender notified by the lawyers of the state company is called "supervening lack of interest", or rather the formal renunciation of discussing the lawsuits on the routes covered by what promised to be a very tough dispute over the skies of Sardinia. The managers of Ita had even gone so far as to threaten a formal complaint against the Region itself, accused in turn of having caused unprecedented damage to the image of the company struggling with the first flying cries. In the end, however, not only did they desist from seeking damages, but yesterday they informed the Administrative Court that they no longer have an interest in going forward with the appeals. All withdrawn, therefore, except one.
