Canceled flights, exhausting delays, hundreds of Sardinian passengers stuck at Linate with assistance reduced to a minimum. And new technical problems on the planes.
Territorial continuity shows other cracks, but this time the umpteenth storm on the transport system is unleashed by a radar failure in northern Italy. About three hundred Sardinians spent the night between Saturday and Sunday in Milan : the luckiest ones at the airport, the others on the benches of the Lombardy airport or even on the ground. The stories of the protagonists are full of anger. Both for having had to ruin their plans - vacations, work appointments, medical visits and many other more or less important reasons that fill the airplanes of territorial continuity - because of the failure, and for the assistance received.
It is no longer just the centre-right that is protesting about the flight disruptions ; now even the majority is grilling Aeroitalia, which "has proven unprepared to guarantee minimum assistance to passengers", thundered the Democratic Party. "The incredible thing is that on the night of the radar failure, without any communication being given to those who were left on the ground, the company sent a plane, which returned to Sardinia empty and found no one waiting for it".
That was enough to convert the issue of the extension on territorial continuity into an emergency : reading the Democratic Party's attacks, but also those of the Progressives, it is no longer a given that Aeroitalia will automatically obtain the task of guaranteeing the right to mobility for Sardinians for another six months, until April 2026 (moreover, the new tender, the one that marked the turning point according to the M5S announcements, is not ready). "Here there is no minimum margin to grant it", said the group leader of the Progressives Francesco Agus. "In all these years of Continuity I don't remember a similar service".
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