From August 1st to September 3rd, Ita Airways "significantly increased the capacity offered on flights in territorial continuity from/to Sardinia , to respond to the marked increase in demand recorded on these connections".
As we approach the end of a critical summer on the transport front, the airline explains that it has "scheduled 222 additional flights with respect to the provisions of the taxation decree , of which 141 to Cagliari (108 from/to Linate and 33 from/to Rome Fiumicino) and 81 on the Alghero-Milan Linate route, offering a total of 36,800 incremental seats compared to the Decree, of which 23,300 on Cagliari (17,300 from/to Milan Linate and 6,000 from/to Rome Fiumicino) and 13,500 on Alghero» .
In detail: compared to the period from 25 August to 3 September, Ita scheduled «76 additional flights to those envisaged by the Decree, of which 51 to Cagliari (36 to/from Milan Linate and 15 to/from Rome Fiumicino) and 25 on the Alghero-Milan Linate, for a total offer of 12,250 additional seats. Of these 76 flights, 34 had already been structurally planned, while 42 were added close to the operational dates to deal with the critical issues deriving from the very high percentage of aircraft occupancy ».
Ita also adds «that, during the tender, it defined its offer in terms of capacity on the basis of the frequencies envisaged by the Decree, determined according to an estimate of demand which also took into account the emergency situation of the Covid-19 pandemic; the mobility needs and the very high demand encountered in this summer season have proved to be much higher than the estimates of the Decree , thus forcing the company to resort massively to the addition of capacity which, in the spirit of the Decree itself, should have been limited to "contingent circumstances" which had determined a demand for seats for each route exceeding 91% of the total daily offer».
Finally, Ita underlines the "continuous monitoring of the available capacity by promptly evaluating, in the event of a shortage of available places, increases in the offer".
