« For the second consecutive day the planes from Sardinia leave late due to the ice on the wings ».
Salvatore Deidda , President of the Transport Commission of the Chamber of Deputies denounces it, posting on social networks the photos of the Elmas airport scoreboard, with delays of more than an hour for all flights departing early this morning.
It emerged, explains Deidda, «that the systems to defrost the wings are not working in Cagliari Airport, as happens in other airports, because we are an island and we are not in a northern airport. So we had to wait for the sun to come out."
A situation that the deputy defines as "embarrassing" given "that there are people who are missing work appointments and connections . I'm asking the authorities in charge whether it is normal for an international airport, such as that of Cagliari, or in the rest of the island, not to have a system ready to avoid this phenomenon. Do we really say that the sun always shines here?».
However, Sogaer gives a different explanation : «The wing de-icing mechanism at Elmas is foreseen and is very sophisticated», the press office announced: «The service has always been in operation up until a few days ago when a problem arose technical type which made it necessary to suspend it pending certain investigations, communicated well in advance to the various airlines. They are then the ones to establish, on the basis of the different degrees of tolerance, whether to leave or not».
(Unioneonline/D)
