Hello!
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His dudeness
...that calls me a cowboy (an executive a/c pilot) ...
I think the airline guys lack our creativity. This is the text of the relevant Olbia NOTAM:
B2520/20 NOTAMR B2381/20
Q) LIRR/QFALT/IV/NBO/A/000/999/4053N00931E005
A) LIEO B) 2005211514 C) 2006022200EST
E) COVID-19.
AERODROME CLOSED TO COMMERCIAL AVIATION TRAFFIC
IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGIONE SARDEGNA DECREE 23 OF 17TH MAY 2020.
RMK: GENERAL AVIATION ACTIVITY AND COMMERCIAL AVIATION ACTIVITY
ON DEMAND (AEROTAXI) WITH AIRCRAFT HAVING MAXIMUM CABIN
CONFIGURATION EQUAL OR LESS THAN 19 SEATS ARE APPROVED IN
COMPLIANCE WITH MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTURE AND TRANSPORTATION
DECREE 207/2020 AND REGIONE SARDEGNA DECREE 23 OF 17TH MAY
2020.
REF AIP AD 2 LIEO 1-1
So all that would have been required would have been to place paper towels with "INOP" written on them placed on 178 of the 190 (or so) seats and call it a "business flight" to comply with that NOTAM. The three or four ot five flight attendants on that plane could easily have done that en route since there was not much else for them to do
