Few flights and skyrocketing prices for non-residents, Councilor Todde: "Too many constraints from the EU"
The regional councilor will soon meet the EU commissioner for transport to discuss the needs of Sardinia
Ita and Volotea, the two companies that from 15 May will make facilitated flights to and from Sardinia (archive L'Unione Sarda)
A new meeting "shortly" with the European Commissioner for Transport with the aim of once again submitting the needs of the island in terms of air continuity .
This was announced today by the councilor Giorgio Todde and the general director of Transport Gabriella Massidda in the fourth commission of the regional council.
During the session we talked about the few flights and the expensive tickets for non-residents , which affect the tourism sector and those who were born in Sardinia and return every summer even if they are not resident.
The oppositions asked the councilor to study a way to reuse the saved resources (40 million because Ita and Volotea have decided to carry out continuous flights without compensation) to improve mobility to and from Sardinia. But Todde and Massidda replied by highlighting the too many constraints imposed by EU regulations .
“We have obtained that the rates of workers outside the island, at a certain time of the year, are equated with those of residents. It is clear that this is not the ban we initially imagined, but it was essential to secure the Sardinians . I think that the presence of the two carriers can generally calm fares ", said Todde, recalling that from May 15" a new era will start for air transport in Sardinia, with two carriers, Ita and Volotea, who have agreed to fly to our Island under territorial continuity and without compensation ".
He defined it as a " historical moment of change ", recalling that "competition is always good for you".
(Unioneonline / L)
