Overview
- Two Wizz Air services from Bologna and Bergamo bound for Tirana were diverted to Brindisi overnight due to adverse weather in Albania.
- About 400 travelers landed around 3 a.m., and a group forced gates, breached security cordons and moved onto the runway in protest.
- Police, Carabinieri and Guardia di Finanza intervened to secure the airfield, which authorities say is now under guard and under control.
- Wizz Air says it provided assistance under passenger-rights rules, with 33 people taking hotel rooms and 39 departing by bus to Rome Fiumicino around 10:00.
- Transport options are being used or added, with buses operating to Rome and Il Messaggero reporting an agreement for a ferry from Brindisi to Vlora this evening, while accounts differ on whether other flights were delayed.