Flight to Lourdes delayed by more than six hours: 300 pilgrims, including elderly and vulnerable people, stranded in Elmas.
Medicines and assistive devices remained in checked baggage, with the flight schedule updated several times without any certainty about the departurePer restare aggiornato entra nel nostro canale Whatsapp
They completed all the boarding procedures for the flight that was due to take off at 2:30 pm for Lourdes, but from that moment on, enormous inconvenience began for approximately 300 people from the OFTAL and UNITALSI associations, including many disabled people, the elderly, and children: they were forced to wait at Elmas airport because the Alba Star plane began to accumulate hours of delays.
The flight was cancelled at 8:50 PM after several delays. Meanwhile, the passengers, coming from various parts of Sardinia (Cagliari, Oristano, and the center of the island), faced enormous difficulties due to the presence of several people among them with serious health problems .
Having checked their luggage, they no longer had access to the medical and personal hygiene equipment needed to care for some of them. Pizza was only distributed around 7:30 PM. But the association passengers' eyes remained fixed on the flight schedule board, hoping not to receive further bad news. Then, finally, the departure.