Ryanair returns to the charge: "We have 300 new planes, but we will decide where to allocate them based on airport taxes. The market is not just Italian but global. And the absence of surcharges, which are a reality in some countries, could make a difference . "
Rosa Pastena, head of public affairs for the Irish airline, made this clear at the conference on the sector's critical issues—but also its prospects—organized in Cagliari by Salvatore Deidda, a member of the Italian League of Independent States (FdI) and chairman of the Chamber of Deputies' Transport Committee. Volotea and easyJet were also present at the meeting.
For Deidda, it's time to " change the European rules on air continuity because Brussels, unlike Corsica and the Balearics, has more residents and isn't even considered an outermost region. This translates into more stringent restrictions on route organization and therefore on the right to mobility." "In Brussels," Deidda continued, "we are in dialogue with Commission Vice President Raffaele Fitto. We cannot continue to have penalizing conditions."
So much so that Giorgio Del Piano, president of Confapi Sardegna, called for "abandonment of the tender formula that has been used for decades and for a focus on light cargo." This request was also echoed in a report by Andrea Giuricin, adjunct professor of Transport Economics at Milan-Bicocca University: "The overly rigid framework for aircraft use evidently increases airline costs," creating diseconomies.
ENAC President Pierluigi Di Palma also addressed the issue of continuity, reiterating the need to "change the model for supporting airlines, without granting exclusivity to a single carrier and moving beyond the three-year model."