Dicembre 1, 2025

🏖 Lombardia, led by Paola Negroni, aims to redefine its tourism with "Lombardia Style", promoting elegance and art. Focused on attracting high-spending international visitors, the initiative emphasizes art, culture, and gastronomy. A key strategy involves leveraging a digitalized "4.0" crafts model to enhance competitive advantage internationally, merging lifestyle, tourism, and creative industries. The goal is to boost economic impact rather than visitor numbers.

🚄 Trenord's new winter schedule begins on December 14, offering 2,400 daily trips. The main feature is the new S19 line connecting Albairate and Milano Rogoredo with two trains per hour each way. The Alessandria-Mortara-Milano line will reroute to Milano Rogoredo, closing Milano Porta Genova to commercial service. Enhanced connections include hourly trains between Milano Centrale and Tortona, with a train every 30 minutes between Milano Rogoredo and Tortona, and modified trans-border services between Como and Chiasso.

✈️ October saw a 6% increase in air traffic compared to 2024, according to IATA. Capacity grew by 5.8%, with an 84.6% load factor, 0.7 percentage points higher than October 2024. International traffic for North American carriers rose 4.5%. November's seat capacity is expected to rise by 3.6%, and December by 4.7%. Willie Walsh, IATA's Director General, highlighted strong demand for holiday travel despite uncertain economic forecasts for 2026.

✈️ Royal Jordanian Airlines partners with dnata, owning 51% of a catering company, to elevate onboard services to premium levels, introducing Premium Economy on 12 A320neo aircraft. Increased Italian bookings since the Gaza truce have filled New Year flights. Considering additional Christmas flights, they operate 5 weekly from Milan and daily from Rome to Amman. Over 9 months: $45 million profit, on-time performance at 95.39%, expanding fleet to 33 planes by 2025, 41 by 2028, including Boeing 787-9s and Embraer 195-E2s.

✈ Wizz Air confirmed some of its aircraft were among the over 6,500 Airbus A320 family planes globally needing a software update. This update was successfully completed overnight between Friday and Saturday. All flights remain operational without further disruptions. Diarmuid O Conghaile, Wizz Air's COO, emphasized safety as the airline's top priority. He thanked Wizz Air staff for their dedication in implementing the updates swiftly, ensuring passenger travel continued unaffected.

✈️ Iberia has extended its suspension of flights to Venezuela until December 31 due to tensions between the Maduro government and the U.S., following a recommendation from the Spanish Aviation Safety Agency (Aesa). This measure allows customers to change flight dates, destinations, or request ticket refunds. Iberia, part of the IAG group, was the first Spanish airline to announce this flight suspension.