ITA Airways and Italo combine plane and train
ITA Airways and Italo are launching a new collaboration in the name of intermodality. Joerg Eberhart, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of ITA Airways, and Gianbattista La Rocca, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Italo, today signed a memorandum of understanding at the Italian airline's headquarters.
The agreement represents not only the launch of a new intermodal product, but also the common desire of the two companies to continue to invest in integrated offers and concrete projects that connect air and rail transport more effectively.
For Travellers, the goal is clear: to make travel simpler, smoother and more comfortable, offering coordinated and quality solutions, with waiting times reduced to a minimum. In detail, the new project will be developed through some precise initiatives. The first concerns the possibility of purchasing a combined plane + train ticket with a single operation, so as to simplify the organization of the trip. The integrated ticket will be available from July through travel agencies, travel managers through the GDS system and on the ita-airways.com website.
Alongside this, the two companies intend to offer an integrated and flexible product, with fare solutions designed to better adapt to the different needs of passengers. The customer experience remains at the heart of the project, with the aim of offering a service in which plane and train are integrated in a simple and uncomplicated way.
The new agreement thus aims to strengthen connectivity on the Italian territory and, at the same time, to expand the possibilities of access to the international destinations of the ITA Airways network, enhancing the interconnection between rail mobility and air transport.
For travellers, this is an important step towards increasingly integrated mobility, with coordinated connections that promise more choice, greater continuity between vehicles and more convenient journey management from start to finish.
