"Starting from October 30, the flights from Olbia to Milan Linate will be only two and will be operated by Ita, with the morning flight at 9 instead of 7, as required by the previous calls, with consequent inconvenience for all those who need to carry out medical visits, business appointments or other connecting flights within the early morning. "

This was reported by Elisabetta Manca , from the Uiltrasporti Sardinia regional secretariat. "Not even the time to celebrate the record numbers reached by the Costa Smeralda airport and immediately the old and usual problems return , linked to an unsatisfactory territorial continuity and to the total absence of connections to the European capitals . As if the glories of a longer season are over. that exciting, residents and non-residents alike can be deprived of essential connections to / from the island for the remaining months of the year ".

"Even though we are in a situation in which the carriers have accepted to operate territorial continuity without any economic compensation - observes Manca - the service charges must in any case be guaranteed and therefore the flights must be operated within the time slots provided for by the announcement . absence of the owner of the transport department, the Region has the task and duty to verify compliance with territorial continuity and that the right to mobility of Sardinians is guaranteed. It should also, in agreement with the airport management companies, enter into agreements with carriers so that they do not limit themselves to operating only in the periods of maximum convenience for them, and then disappear completely as soon as the tourist flows decrease, making any type of movement to and from the island even more difficult ".

(Unioneonline / vl)