German airline Eurowings flew Dusseldorf to Sardinia on Saturday, but turned around when Olbia Airport was still shut.
The low-cost carrier resumed services from Düsseldorf to Sardinia, Italy, on Saturday -- but was forced to turn around at its destination because Olbia Airport is still closed.
Flight EW9844 set off on the 730-mile flight to Sardinia's Olbia Airport on the morning of May 23, but was in Sardinian airspace before being informed by air traffic control that it wasn't open to commercial traffic.A diversion was proposed to Cagliari, some 120 miles away, reports Italian newspaperThis little sightseeing tour of western Europe, for the benefit of the A320's load of two Sardinian passengers, took a total of four hours and ten minutes.
"The large amount of information provided on operating hours or airport closures are often changed at short notice," added the spokesperson, and there are"daily changes in entry regulations in the various countries." The confusion appears to center on Italy's Ministry of Infrastructure and Transportation reopening the airport on Sunday, May 17, but that decision was overruled the same day at a regional level, reports the
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