A real drain on buying airline tickets from the Island . The reporting to the Antitrust of the out-of-control tariffs – Volotea is currently in the sights of the Region – has not intimidated the companies, which continue to raise prices for tourists. And a flight booked at the last moment costs up to 410 euros .

There are few cases in which the ceiling imposed by the government with the latest Omnibus decree is respected : it cannot exceed three times the average fare recorded on the same route. But the identified mechanism does not make monitoring easy (also because the companies should collaborate and say what the average price is, which obviously does not happen) and therefore the cost of moving to and from the island remains high.

The system The Department of Transport, in the letter sent to the Competition and Market Authority, takes as a reference the rate reserved for residents on territorial continuity connections. A flight to Rome costs 72 euros. So theoretically a ticket for non-resident passengers could not exceed the threshold of 216 euros. Instead, if today a tourist - or a Sardinian emigrant - wants to buy a ticket to go home, he should be prepared to spend well beyond this amount.

RATES – On the Cagliari-Milan line , one of the busiest in these days of counter-exodus, prices are out of control . For a flight - one way - we start from 265 euros for EasyJet (which lands at Malpensa), to continue with the 294 euros for Ita Airways, which manages territorial continuity in the capital's airport. Finally Ryanair (destination Orio al Serio), with 381 euros. The Irish company on the Cagliari-Rome route is even more expensive: 409 euros for a ticket purchased last minute. Just a breath away from the record of 410 euros on Volotea's Olbia-Rome route, which prompted the Region to write to the Antitrust.

Dear, dear also the other routes. For example the Alghero-Bologna: 381 euros with Ryanair. Or the Olbia-Bologna: 354 euros with Volotea. Rates to which you have to add between 40 and 50 euros if you want to load luggage in the hold of the plane (it happens, especially if you are returning from summer holidays).

APPOINTMENTS – Meanwhile, an important week for air mobility opens today. Tomorrow in Connected it is the turn of transport: twenty-five million are expected for carriers to increase routes to the island. On Wednesday the governor Christian Solinas and the councilor Moro will instead be in Brussels , for a meeting with the European commissioner Adina Valean. The meeting will kick off negotiations for the new territorial continuity, which should enter into force in October next year. And on Friday the court of Cagliari will rule on the request for suspension presented by the lawyers of the Region to stop the merger of the airports of Olbia and Alghero.

Further details in Michele Ruffi's article on L'Unione Sarda on newsstands and in the L'Unione Digital app

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