How reliable the public transport in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italia? Do they have contactless travel?

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Don't know if it's too late, but a couple of personal suggestions:

  • The railway timetables normally are respected, could happen a short delay (few minutes in short trips - let's say 5 min in a 40 min trip), but sometimes could happen a bigger delay. Since you don't have much margin, could be risky...it's not common, but could happen, so better considering 10/15min delay for the return travel, just in case.
  • the easyest tiketing option for trains is buy the tiket online from their official site, i guess you will use trenitlia. Consider that the tikets you buy online don't need to be stamped because are valid only for the date/time you selected...good for timing but the drawback is that if you miss the train, you loose the money of the tikek unless you choose a more expensive tiket that let's you to change date/time. You don't need to print the tiket, it's enough show the pdf you receive via mail when purchase the tiket. Consider you can buy online the tikets until few minutes the train leaves the station.
    In the stations there are also automatic machines where you can buy the tikets, but in this case you have to stamp it before entering in the train, using the yellow/green machines in the platforms (like this), you can buy both the tikets and stamp them when needed. If you miss the stamping, or don't have time for the tiket, or whatever, when reaching the platform go straight to the officer that controls the entrance/exit of the people in the train and tell him/her the problem...he will make the tiket for you (probably asking a small fee) but no fine.
  • you can rely to google maps for the position of the stops and, normally, for the scheduled times...but if the tram is late, maps is usually wrong so don't rely on it about the precise online timing.

After all, my suggestion is to completly avoid the train/tram since the center is quite close to the airport, and go for a taxi. Maybe it will be a little bit more expensive, but it's about 10/15 min drive...should not be so high. Using a taxi you can avoid the "dead times" of the fixed timing of the public transport (since you don't have much time) and directly ask the driver to bring you in the spot you would like to visit, if you find any, or ask him a suggestion...for example visit bastione di saint remy, enjoy the view and walk aroud in the near "quartiere castello" (castello district). Also you can ask him the mobile number and call him back for the return, or decide a time/place where to meet for the return.

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