Sicily airport emergency fallout: union sit-ins at four airports, Codacons esposto in Ragusa
Sicilian transport unions pressed six demands at four airports on 3 October 2026, while Codacons asked Ragusa prosecutors to examine cash payments allegedly charged for Comiso–Catania buses.
Transport unions staged sit-ins outside four Sicilian airports on 3 October 2026, with the Ragusa branches of Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uil Trasporti holding an assembly at Comiso's Pio La Torre airport, according to Radio RTM. On 1 October, Codacons announced it had presented a complaint, or esposto, to the public prosecutor's office in Ragusa over passengers who, during the recent airport emergency, were allegedly required to pay cash sums to use bus connections from Comiso to Catania, according to Radio RTM and Ragusa H24.
According to the unions cited by Radio RTM, the Comiso sit-in and assembly rested on six points: a regional airport emergency plan; a dedicated fund; more personnel for organisation and security; concrete economic recognition; the right to mobility of Sicilian citizens; and the development of tourism. The action was called by the regional union confederations, which announced sit-ins at four Sicilian airports. The unions had advanced a proposal for a preventive and structural fund for airport emergencies after the emergency that struck Catania airport in recent months because of the Etna eruption.
The Codacons initiative was announced by avv. Giovanni Petrone, the association's regional president, who said he had instructed avv. Carmelo Sardella, a criminal lawyer and head of Codacons' regional legal office. According to the account given to Radio RTM and Ragusa H24, Codacons asks the magistracy to shed full light on what happened and to establish whether the matter concerns a single episode or whether similar situations may have occurred on other occasions and involved further travellers.
The material does not report any response from the Ragusa prosecutor's office, any finding on the payments, or any next procedural step. The reports supplied are truncated in the passages setting out the remainder of the union proposal and the closing requests of the Codacons complaint, so those details could not be verified.