Their flight didn't take off from Fiumicino due to the fire that disrupted connections at Olbia airport yesterday afternoon, July 10th: 180 passengers hoping to reach Sardinia are stranded in Rome. And to make their already grim mood worse, further bad news has arrived: the first available connection to the island is tomorrow morning at 7:50 a.m. Other flights will follow, on which they will be placed depending on availability. They learned this after spending a night in a hotel.
The fire near the Costa Smeralda affected twenty scheduled flights: many incoming flights were diverted to Cagliari, Alghero, and even Rome and Figari, Corsica. Others were canceled, including the 6:55 PM Rome-Olbia flight operated by Volotea.
"When we arrived at the airport," says Rosa Angius, from Nuoro, "we found that the flight had been postponed to 8:10 PM. We repeatedly asked the staff for explanations, but no one informed us of the fire in Olbia. Thus began a shameful ordeal, from boarding to check-in, twice."
