https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Officials in Rome have rejected a plan to expand Fiumicino airport after an environmental commission deemed the project “incompatible” with an existing natural reserve, the environmental ministry said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20191029/rome-fiumicinos-fourth-runway-plan-rejected-over-environmental-fears Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:09:59 +0100 rome-fiumicinos-fourth-runway-plan-rejected-over-environmental-fears Italian police have arrested five suspects accused of snatching passengers' valuables at Rome's Fiumicino airport. https://www.thelocal.it/20191007/video-thieves-snatch-bags-rome-fiumicino-airport-italy Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:31:26 +0200 video-thieves-snatch-bags-rome-fiumicino-airport-italy Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport, better known as Rome Fiumicino, has been rated Europe's best airport for the second year running by Airports Council International (ACI). https://www.thelocal.it/20190701/romes-fiumicino-rated-the-best-airport-in-europe Mon, 01 Jul 2019 11:12:13 +0200 romes-fiumicino-rated-the-best-airport-in-europe From next month, travellers will be able to take one of Italy's high-speed trains directly to and from Rome airport without going into the city centre. https://www.thelocal.it/20181120/italy-frecciarossa-fast-train-rome-airport-to-venice Tue, 20 Nov 2018 17:23:40 +0100 italy-frecciarossa-fast-train-rome-airport-to-venice A car that is believed to have belonged to a man named on the UK’s terror watch list was found abandoned at Rome’s Fiumicino airport. https://www.thelocal.it/20160610/car-of-man-on-british-terror-list-found-at-rome-airport Fri, 10 Jun 2016 11:04:23 +0200 car-of-man-on-british-terror-list-found-at-rome-airport A university professor from Germany was charged with illegal possession of human remains after a human skull was found in his suitcase at Rome’s Fiumicino airport. https://www.thelocal.it/20160404/german-professor-stopped-at-rome-airport-with-human-skull Mon, 04 Apr 2016 17:19:14 +0200 german-professor-stopped-at-rome-airport-with-human-skull An Italian pilot sent a spine-chilling text message to his wife threatening to crash the plane he was about to fly if she left him. https://www.thelocal.it/20160307/italina-pilot-told-wife-hed-crash-plane-if-she-left-him Mon, 07 Mar 2016 11:13:11 +0100 italina-pilot-told-wife-hed-crash-plane-if-she-left-him Police have dismantled an elaborate network of thieves at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, including cleaners, ground crew and passenger assistants, who were behind the theft of valuable paintings from passengers in transit. https://www.thelocal.it/20151229/rome-airport-cleaners-in-pilfered-artworks-racket Tue, 29 Dec 2015 18:22:15 +0100 rome-airport-cleaners-in-pilfered-artworks-racket A Belgian man managed to bypass security and board a plane at Rome’s Fiumicino airport without a ticket, according to an Italian media report. https://www.thelocal.it/20150908/man-boards-plane-in-rome-without-ticket-report Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:28:10 +0200 man-boards-plane-in-rome-without-ticket-report A video showing an Alitalia flight attendant shoving a passenger at Rome's Fiumicino airport has gone viral. https://www.thelocal.it/20150731/hostess-shoves-passenger-amid-fiumicino-chaos Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:00:20 +0200 hostess-shoves-passenger-amid-fiumicino-chaos Flights in and out of Rome's disaster-hit Fiumicino airport were seriously disrupted for a second day on Thursday after a fire in a nearby pine grove threw dense smoke across the runway. https://www.thelocal.it/20150731/disruption-ensues-at-romes-disaster-hit-airport Fri, 31 Jul 2015 10:01:22 +0200 disruption-ensues-at-romes-disaster-hit-airport Rome’s Fiumicino airport suffered yet another setback on Thursday morning – a 20-minute power cut. https://www.thelocal.it/20150730/romes-fiumicino-airport-hit-by-power-cut Thu, 30 Jul 2015 15:52:37 +0200 romes-fiumicino-airport-hit-by-power-cut Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said that an investigation has been opened after authorities found that a fire near Rome's Fiumicino airport started in multiple places, leading them to believe it was started deliberately. https://www.thelocal.it/20150730/probe-opens-into-fire-near-romes-airport Thu, 30 Jul 2015 10:12:27 +0200 probe-opens-into-fire-near-romes-airport UPDATED: Rome's Fiumicino airport was forced to suspend all flights for around two hours Wednesday after a fire broke out in a nearby pine grove, spreading dense smoke across the runway. https://www.thelocal.it/20150729/fire-near-rome-airport-all-departures-suspended-alitalia Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:39:18 +0200 fire-near-rome-airport-all-departures-suspended-alitalia Rome Fiumicino airport’s Terminal Three, which was severely damaged by a fire in early May, will reopen by the end of July. https://www.thelocal.it/20150715/rome-airports-blaze-hit-t3-set-to-reopen-end-of-july Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:10:55 +0200 rome-airports-blaze-hit-t3-set-to-reopen-end-of-july British Airways passengers, or at least the lucky few who made it back to London from Italy on Wednesday night, vented their anger after their flight was rerouted from Rome to Naples without sufficient prior warning. https://www.thelocal.it/20150702/passenger-fury-over-bas-italy-airport-switch Thu, 02 Jul 2015 14:07:32 +0200 passenger-fury-over-bas-italy-airport-switch Long-haul travellers departing from Rome’s Fiumicino airport described scenes of chaos on Sunday as one of the terminals, which was hit by a fire in May, remains partially closed. https://www.thelocal.it/20150629/chaos-deepens-at-romes-blaze-hit-airport Mon, 29 Jun 2015 12:49:37 +0200 chaos-deepens-at-romes-blaze-hit-airport UPDATED: A Pakistani accused of organizing a 2009 bomb attack on a Peshawar market that killed more than 130 people, has been detained in Italy, police said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150626/italy-arrests-pakistani-accused-of-peshawar-bombing Fri, 26 Jun 2015 11:58:45 +0200 italy-arrests-pakistani-accused-of-peshawar-bombing Italy's busiest airport is cutting back the number of flights to ease passenger congestion after a fire caused widespread damage at one of its terminals, the civil aviation authority said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150612/romes-fiumicino-airport-to-cut-back-flights-after-blaze Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:56:11 +0200 romes-fiumicino-airport-to-cut-back-flights-after-blaze The CEO of the Rome airport company Aeroporti di Roma (ADR), Lorenzo Lo Presti, is the latest person to be investigated after the blaze at Fiumicino airport three weeks ago. https://www.thelocal.it/20150528/airport-chief-investigated-after-fiumicino-fire Thu, 28 May 2015 12:26:14 +0200 airport-chief-investigated-after-fiumicino-fire