Air transport chaos, Salvini: "Tim do his best or he will pay". The Democratic Party: passing the buck

ROME – In the midst of the chaos for air travel, Matteo Salvini strikes a blow. "The opposition has been summoning me to Parliament this morning due to the problems of the planes which are traveling at 50% capacity. The problem is not Salvini's, there is a blockade of the Enav data transmission network managed by Tim, so I ask that Tim technicians do their utmost to return to normality".

"If this inconvenience continues, I wouldn't want to be forced to ask Tim to answer for the damage caused to so many travelers today."

“What didn't work”

Matteo Renzi, leader of Italia Viva, criticizes the minister head-on: "After what I said from Floris, Salvini attacked me. And due to the harsh law of karma on the same day I found myself on a Rome-Florence train 105 minutes late. You will say: oh well, poor guy, it's not his fault. He shouldn't control the trains. And in fact today air transport is in haywire. Let's put it this way: either he's not capable or it's bad luck. Everyone chooses the answer you prefer. The only rule: it is forbidden to answer both”.

The Democratic Party wants the Transport Minister to report to Parliament. Senator Antonio Misiani says: "As of this night, Italian air traffic is practically on its knees. An airspace management capacity reduced by approximately 50%".

"Thousands of passengers, workers and businesses are paying the price for a very serious situation, unacceptable in a G7 country. It is not enough for us to know that it is not a hacker or sabotage attack. Indeed, this aspect is even more worrying: it means that the data transmission network that supports the entire national air traffic control has collapsed on its own."

The top management of the company

"A strategic infrastructure, on which flight safety is based, cannot go into crisis due to a technical anomaly and remain out of order for hours, with the contingency systems holding up only until dawn. We demand immediate answers to what is happening. What really happened? Why didn't the redundancy work? How long will the outage last? Which investments have been made, and which have been postponed, in the maintenance and modernization of the networks? Who will compensate passengers and how will they be protected the workers in the sector?”.

“For this reason we ask that the leaders of Enav and the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini come to report to Parliament as soon as possible”.

Anthony Barbagallo, group leader of the Democratic Party in the Transport commission in the Chamber, announces the presentation of an urgent question: "Where is Salvini? In recent years the minister seems to have been distracted for too long with the structural problems of the sector. Now the issues are coming home to roost. Reassurances are not enough: we need clear answers and transparency on what is happening".

“Modernize systems”

The M5s group leader in the Senate Transport Committee, Gabriella Di Girolamo, underlines: "With the Meloni government, fuel costs an arm and a leg, with hauliers, fishermen and farmers now unable to work: it is an incontrovertible fact and the protests in the South are proof of this."

"Then there is the total disaster, also known, that rail transport and local public transport are experiencing since the misfortune by the name of Matteo Salvini has been in the ministry. With the latter, air transport is also collapsing: today traffic is on its knees, with capacity halved, hundreds of canceled flights and biblical delays at airports throughout Italy".