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Now let the city I'll be doing. Hello, my name is Claudia. I was born and raised in Sardinia and I still call it home. I am the mastermind behind the Streetly Sardinia Travel blog and now the Streetly Sardinia podcast where each week I'll bring you the best Sardina has to offer and share my most useful tips that will help you plan a memorable trip to my wonderful island. In the last episode I talked to you about Hurricane Harry and how it will not affect your trip to Sardinia. This week I want to focus on another pressing issue, one for which many of you have been sending me emails, messages on my social media, comments on my posts on my social media or on my blog. Now, as always, let me stress that you will find lots of information to help you plan your trip to Sardinia on my blog, sweetly sardinia.com if you need more help to plan your trip to the island, you can book a one hour travel consultation with me. The link for that is in the episode description. So now today's topic. Are there no flights from Rome or Milan to Sardinia after 31st of March? That's a question that many of you asked. Let me tell you, there will be flights. Local authorities are currently trying to solve a recurrent issue with the territorial continuity Continuita territoriale. In Italian I say recurrent because it happens, but all the time. Continuita territoriale is the expression that we use to refer to the fact that we residents of Sardinia have the right to a flat fare to fly into specific airports in mainland Italy, namely Rome, Fiumicino and Milano Linate. Now, to run these flights, the airlines have to be approved. To be approved, they have to participate in a call for tender and they have to fulfill certain criteria. The call for tender has to be placed, has to be made public by the local authorities. So the region of Sardinia is in collaboration with the Italian government and the European Union and all airlines are allowed to participate. And when they participate, their request is examined and they can get approved to run the service. But there is a whole procedure. For whatever reason, our local authorities always put this call for tender, which we call bando out. They publish it last minute. Now, I don't want to go into too many details. I would probably start a rant into how the fact that at times we cannot book flights is a basic violation of our right to freedom of movement. It frustrates locals. Remember that we residents of Sardinia don't only travel to mainland Italy for tourism. We travel there for health reasons, we travel there for business reasons, we travel there to Visit family. So it affects us now. How can you solve it since you're booking your trip to Sardinia? Well, one thing is to simply wait. The current continuita territoriale. So the current territorial continuity is run by air Italia and ITA Airways, two different airlines and ends on 31st of March. If things work the way they have always worked, new flights will be announced and the new airline running the flights will be announced no later than 30th of March. So you could be patient. You could start booking your flight to Italy. So Milan or Romeo for those dates. Personally, I think Rome is a better option. And then wait until the flights to Sardinia are announced. Otherwise, other solutions that I offer you. You could fly into one of the following airport and get a connecting flight to Sardinia. Meaning that you will have your boarding pass with you the moment you check in all the way to Sardinia and you won't have to take your luggage again. You will pick up your luggage once you land in Sardinia. These airports and these airlines offer direct flights to Sardinia. Paris Charles de Gaulle. So you could fly into Paris Char de Gaulle and Air France has direct connections to Sardinia typically between May and October. Otherwise you could fly into Amsterdam. Ship Hall. KLM runs flights to Sardinia from May to October. Or you could fly into Frankfurt or Munich. Lufthansa has direct connections to Sardinia from May to October. Finally, there are flights from London Gatwick. So you could fly into London Gatwick and get a connection with British Airways. Again, these flights are available between May and October. Otherwise, final solution. You could decide to take one of the many budget airline flights that run between mainland Italy and Sardinia, operated by a variety of companies. Ryanair, Easyjet, Volotea. The one issue with them is, is that they fly from smaller airports. So for example, in Rome you will be flying from Ciampino. You wouldn't be able to land in Rome and on the same day fly to Sardinia. Because international or long distance flights land in Rome, Fiumicino and you would have to find your way to make your way to London to to Rome. Ciampino flights are available from Pisa, Bologna, Venice, Milano, Orial Serio, which is in Bergamo, many other airports. My personal recommendation, unless you fly, unless you wait to get your flight from Rome. After the continuitate ritoriale is finally announced, again, book your flight into Paris or Amsterdam or Frankfurt, Munich, London, Gatwick and then with that find a connecting flight to Sardinia. For more information on how to get to Sardinia, you can read my blog post how to get to Sardinia. As always I will place the link to that in my episode description in this podcast. If you even need more help planning your trip to Sardinia, let me remind you once again that you can book a one hour consultation with me. The link for that is in the episode description. Next week we will resume my more typical style of episode and I will share my tips on how to get from now. If you like my podcast, make sure to share with your friends who are traveling to Sardinia. Give it a five star review and until next week, goodbye.