Several flights cancelled, hundreds of passengers left stranded and disruptions that continue today. This is the balance of the Cagliari-Elmas airport on the failure of the Enav Milan Area Control Center, which yesterday evening brought air traffic to a standstill in much of Italy, with a total of 320 flights blocked from taking off or landing at airports in the North-West .

The situation is now returning to normal, but there are still those waiting to be re-protected on a new flight . The company Aeroitalia has announced that the passengers who were stranded yesterday from Cagliari have all left, while from Linate ( where dozens remained stranded, having spent the night at the airport ) they will do so today but without causing delays for the other flights scheduled for today.

Among the cancelled flights involving the Cagliari airport, a Ryanair return flight to Bergamo airport, flight FR3893 scheduled to land in Elmas at 22:45 and flight FR3892 which was due to leave for Lombardy at 23:15. In territorial continuity, however, from Linate, flights XZ2359 (departure at 20:00, arrival at 21:20) and XZ2357 (departure at 22:00, arrival at 23:20) were blocked .

Since yesterday evening, Sogaer staff at Cagliari airport have been busy with a significant amount of work to assist passengers , with the support of the operations center to manage the emergency that has arisen . In Milan, the radar center fault has now been repaired and air traffic is returning to normal.

(Unioneonline/r.sp.)

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