Night of inconvenience at Fiumicino: three hours delay in AeroItalia flights from Alghero and to Olbia

Three hours of delay on the Alghero-Rome flight and, in turn, the same number on the Rome-Olbia flight: it is the story of an ordinary evening (turned into the middle of the night) of inconvenience for passengers on AeroItalia's territorial continuity flights. The flight was supposed to leave at 7.20pm from Fertilia but was blocked due to an unspecified technical problem.

However, no information reaches the passengers waiting at Fiumicino, who only learn from the board of the one-hour delay of the flight to Olbia initially scheduled for 9.40pm. Only when faced with the continuation of the delay and the complaints of exasperated passengers did the airport staff inform them that the wait was linked to a problem with the flight from Alghero which was still stopped in Fertilia at 10.30pm. In the meantime, the plane at the Alghero airport is replaced and the one that finally lands at the Roman airport, around midnight, is not an AeroItalia airliner but a Boeing without livery from AirExplore, a charter airline based in Bratislava.

Finally the approximately 200 passengers can board and 5 minutes after one o'clock the plane takes off. Without a shred of information, without a glass of water and without even the essential safety instructions in Italian. It's 1.35am when we arrive at the now deserted Costa Smeralda. For dozens of passengers, like a team from La Maddalena who also have to deal with the ferry, the nightmare journey continues.