They did not use the Italian Post Office. The letters in duplicate, with different signatures, the first Spanish headed paper, the second Italian, traveled exclusively on the ether, that of certified e-mail. After all, considering the senders, they could only take advantage of the sky, the same that for months has seen them opposed and now, almost like a fairy tale with a happy ending, locked in a love affair at high altitude. They have spoken of every color, they have challenged each other with a lot of famous lawyers, disturbing even the most famous robes, from the offspring of the State to those of the Quirinale. They took off their greetings, even those of courtesy, they drew papers and accusations, but you know, business disputes are often "convicts".
Understanding & Authority
It is not known whether the Guarantor Authority, the one that oversees the "restrictive competition agreements", will ever turn the spotlight on those two letters that arrived almost simultaneously in the mailbox of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, but it is certain that over the skies of the Isolate the war is, for the moment, over. Volotea, the Spaniards of the low-cost air, and Ita, the future Franco-Americans of the skies of the Bel Paese, first gave them a good reason, in the courts and beyond, they did mutual accounts in their pockets, even though to conquer the most profitable of territorial continuities, the one to and from Sardinia, and then, as if by magic, they found themselves in agreement. They made a simple reasoning: on an island, until proven otherwise, you can go or go out only by ship, if you have a few days of time, or, like it or not, if you don't have time to waste, you have to take that "flying coach" with 180 seats suspended at an altitude of thirty thousand feet. The blackmail of the heavens is written in history. Pay full hands or stay on the ground, isolated.
The challenge of the skies
Volotea had dared to question the monopoly scepter of Alitalia, which has always been the absolute dominus of connections to and from the land of the Nuraghi. At issue was not only the explicit challenge to the never-mourned national airline, the Italian one, but above all the titanic clash between a "low cost" and a "major". Two opposing philosophies, from management to earnings. And, in fact, the Spaniards of Volotea only crept into the territorial continuity market when Alitalia, in the throes of an unprecedented financial crisis, had to hand over arms and baggage to the liquidators. The Spaniards of Barcelona took advantage of this when the ashes of the state company had not yet transformed into the Phoenician Arab of Ita. The offer of the Catalan-Aragonese great-grandchildren for Sardinian territorial continuity, a year ago, routed the field. Auction discounts of almost 40%. The most exemplary of the demonstrations in the field: those ten-year contributions, erroneously defined as compensation, were nothing but copious gifts from Rome before and from Cagliari after, to the state management of the pseudo-public company. Hypothesizing reductions of that magnitude on flight management could have two meanings, one surreal and imaginative, cardboard planes, and the other more truthful and credible, in the territorial continuity tender specifications more than one item was blown out of proportion. The administrative courts have had their work cut out to deal with it.
