Market notes
On chartering from Sardinia
Sardinia is the only page on our network built around three airports because the island genuinely functions as three separate catchment areas rather than one destination with alternates. Olbia Costa Smeralda absorbs roughly 80% of all private-jet traffic to the island because it sits closest to Porto Cervo, the Costa Smeralda, and the yachting infrastructure that drives most of the demand. Cagliari and Alghero are not backups for OLB; they are the correct primary airport for the south coast and the northwest respectively, and picking the wrong one adds an hour or more of ground transfer for no benefit.
Airport selection logic here is almost entirely geographic rather than aircraft-driven, since all three fields take the full jet-class range non-stop. Porto Cervo, Costa Smeralda, and Poltu Quatu route through OLB without exception. Chia and Villasimius on the south coast route through CAG. Alghero and Stintino route through AHO. The one operational wrinkle is Ferragosto week, when OLB's parking saturates regardless of which airport made geographic sense, and aircraft get pushed to Rome-Ciampino or Nice after drop-off purely for lack of ramp space.
Pricing follows the same short, intense season that defines the whole Costa Smeralda economy. A light jet from Nice that runs 9,500 EUR in June can sit at the top of its range during the two weeks bracketing Ferragosto, when every suitable aircraft in the Western Mediterranean is already committed to a Sardinia rotation. Because mid-June to mid-September carries roughly 80% of annual movements at OLB, the pricing curve is steeper here than at airports with a longer shoulder season; there is comparatively little middle ground between peak and off-peak.
Seasonality outside the main window drops off sharply. Winter operations at all three airports run at a fraction of summer volume, and empty-leg supply on the Milan-Olbia and Rome-Olbia corridors, which is dense in July and August, thins to almost nothing from October through May. For clients with flexible dates, June and the first half of September deliver reliable Mediterranean weather with meaningfully easier slot access and softer pricing than the Ferragosto fortnight.
