Private deals on public goods, financial takeovers with corporate "acrobatics", high finance and strong powers. To give a name to the operation they resorted to all the suggestive paraphernalia that the vocabulary of the heavens offered. Initially the definition was to be summarized with a slogan: "a unique airport for Sardinia". The risk of being misunderstood suggested an immediate retreat. The next advert featured a high-sounding "unitary management of Sardinian airports". Even this summary, however, did not convince them of the true objective set. In the end, they went to find the final version in the "sacred texts" of the European Commission: "Sardinia's airport network". It's a shame, however, that the meaning given by the Brussels offices to the definition of "airport network" was the exact opposite of what was being planned between the offices of Largo Carlo Felice, the Cagliari headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce, and the private finance buildings Milanese.
In short, privatize
In every way the protagonists of the airport assault have tried to deny the most effective and realistic summary of the operation: privatization of Cagliari airport, to date 94.4% of the shares are in the hands of the Chamber of Commerce, and creation of a real monopoly of the air gates of entry and exit from Sardinia, i.e. the airports of Olbia, Alghero and the Cagliari airport of Elmas. To be clearer, the objective of the leaders of the Chamber of Commerce was to privatize the Cagliari airport, but to do so they needed an "excuse-justification" that could cloak the operation in an alleged public interest.
“Motivation-excuse”
This is how they "invented" the "motivation-excuse" of the "airport network" to obtain two results: privatizing on the one hand and on the other choosing, without any public tender, the private sector which acquires in fact, even if not formally , the majority and the governance of all three Sardinian airports. In practice, in the buildings of Milan and Cagliari, it was first chosen to whom to "sell" the concession of that immense public heritage and then the path which, according to their "financial engineers", would be simplest to reach the final result. In the end, they put that "imaginative" corporate alchemy made of "exchanges", mergers, shareholder agreements and corporate "shortcuts" in black and white with a resolution as explicit as it is eloquent. An act that had effectively "prepared" the airport "merger-privatization" of Sardinia by establishing, without any public evidence, who would have to sit at the "round table" of Sardinian airports.
