ROME – Air traffic slowed down. Aircraft that depart with serious delays and arrive with serious delays also in Milan Linate, Bergamo Orio al Serio, Rome Fiumicino, Naples, Bari, Friuli, Turin. Air traffic management capacity halved. And the situation is complicated by the strike of easyJet pilots and assistants.
The Italy that flies wakes up with a bad surprise. Since the night, the data transmission network of the ENAV flight controllers, necessary to manage aircraft traffic, has been recording "anomalies". The problems, already noticed during the night, worsened from 6 am with the increase in takeoffs and landings.
Late in the morning, Enav announced that the field is the "secondary satellite network". Guaranteed routes exceeded 50%.
And again: "In-depth and constant work is underway with Enav's external suppliers, starting with Tim which deals with management and maintenance of the data network, to identify and resolve anomalies. The objective is to restore full operations as soon as possible".
They are not pirates
The situation, therefore, is serious. If it's any consolation, we are faced with a pure and simple technical failure. Enav excludes "malicious activity". In short, we are not victims of a hacker attack.
At Fiumicino airport, as in the rest of Italy, there are repercussions on flights. At the moment, there would be 10 cancellations (also for Milan Linate, Riyadh, Tirana and Trieste) and 191 flights delayed between 15 and 60 minutes.
Failure of the ENAV network, canceled flights and delays also at Fiumicino
edited by the Chronicle of Rome 16 October 2026
The monitors and the chatbot
ADR is informing passengers, via the website, airport monitors and its own communication channels, that "due to technical problems with the air traffic control systems on a national scale, delays and cancellations may occur. Passengers are invited to check the status of their flight with the relevant airline".
The chatbot number on WhatsApp (3489991111) of Rome Airports is also active where travelers can get information on the status of their flight in real time.
At Malpensa the departures board indicates delays from half an hour to over two hours, while those for arrivals are more limited. Delays also at Linate airport: from twenty minutes to an hour for arrivals, up to more than an hour for departures.
Ryanair, Volotea
Problems also at Orio al Serio airport, in the province of Bergamo, where the 6.50 Ryanair for Trapani took off an hour and a half late; an hour and twenty minutes of delay also for the same company's flight to Berlin, while the arrival of the Volotea coming from Olbia at 7.45 is scheduled for 11.18.
“Due to a technical problem on the services supporting the ENAV air traffic control system at a national level - reads a notice to passengers published on the airport's website - scheduled flights may be subject to delays in departure and arrival”.
To ensure maximum safety, Naples airport halves takeoffs and landings, going from 28 to 14 movements per hour, with a limit of 7 arriving flights and 7 departing flights.
There are currently 9 departure and 8 arrival cancellations with an average delay of 40 minutes on all departing flights. Salerno airport has a balance of one cancellation on arrival, one on departure and one flight that departed late (out of 8 scheduled movements, 4 arriving and 4 departing).
In Ronchi dei Legionari
In Bari, four departing flights have been canceled so far: the Ita flight to Milan Linate (at 11.55am) and two Ryanair flights to Milan Orio al Serio (at 12.35pm) and to Malpensa (12.40pm) and the Wizz flight to Bucharest at 2.55pm.
Four cancellations also for arrivals in Bari: the Milan Linate at 10.20, the Ryanair from Milan Orio al Serio (at 12.10) and from Malpensa (at 12.15) and the Wizz to Bucharest at 2.20. Brindisi airport has so far reported the cancellation of the Ryanair flight from Milan Orio al Serio at 12.05.
The Friuli Venezia Giulia airport - in Ronchi dei Legionari (Gorizia) - has suffered the cancellation of a mid-morning flight from Rome Fiumicino. A flight from Trieste and Milan Linate, scheduled for the morning, was delayed by a few hours: it should take off late in the morning.
In Piedmont
The painting in Turin. Among the canceled departures are flights to Palermo at 8.55 and 10.10, Munich at 9.55, Rome Fiumicino at 11.15 and Catania at 12.40.
