Effects of privatisation, it is impossible to book low cost flights for the winter in Alghero

In Alghero it is impossible to book low cost flights for the next winter season . It is the most serious epilogue of a wild privatization of Sardinian airports, which began right in the airport of the Coral Riviera.

A plan, that of private individuals to "expropriate" the Sardinian airports, to be implemented in four steps. Only the last one is missing. The first is the "sale" of the Alghero airport , due to presumed "losses" which were in fact non-payments of contributions by the Region itself. The Giunta Pigliaru, after generating the hole, sold off the stopover at the F2 fund for just 10 million. A few months go by and "the collective dismissal due to staff reduction" is triggered. Zero investments, zero incentives to attract tourists with low cost flights: F2i's goal is not to grow the airport, but to use it as a "Trojan horse" to scale the entire Sardinian airport system .

Move number two: on 23 October 2020 F2i buys 80% of Olbia airport . Move number three, on May 29 of this year, the merger of the airports of Alghero and Olbia . In an instant the Costa Smeralda airport is worth a lot, 330 million euros, and that of Alghero very little, reduced to a sort of almsgiving, just 22 million euros.

The victim of the merger is the Region: it held 29% in Alghero and 20% in Olbia, now its share portfolio is reduced to 2.93% plus 0.36% of Sfirs . The landlord doesn't have the keys to two of the three main entrance doors to the island, and he challenges the entire operation .

Now everything is ready for the fourth and final move: Cagliari airport is in the sights . The plan is already written.

And the consequences of privatization are already clearly visible: Ryanair, the largest low-cost airline in the world, has canceled Alghero from its winter calendar . In all other Italian airports and beyond, you can also book after October 28th. Not in Alghero.