The business train to Fiumicino airport in Rome

At the risk control of the lucrative Fs on the Rome-airport
Daniele Martini (www.ilfattoquotidiano.it)
Il is the train the most expensive, most profitable and one of the most battered of Italy. Each half-hour runs between Rome and Fiumicino airport, 31 km non-stop. It's called Leonardo Express because it comes from inside the airport, the airport Leonardo da Vinci, in fact. For Railways who run the business is a real business, better ot the new high=speed trains.
For passengers, however, is a different matter. For them, those 31 miles are a nightmare, the worst card that the Eternal City can offer to those who decided to come and visit, the worst for workers that use it everyday.A deputy, Aldo Di Biagio of the PDL, in a query has described as "horrifying" that trip. The coaches are the same for 33 years, uncomfortable, badly reduced, with the toilet often closed or otherwise unusable. Every now and then undergo a refresher, described as "revamping" , which consists of some work for not dropping everything to pieces, a little 'maintenance of the interior and the seats and mainly a plastic brightly coloured surface on the outside body that give a 'so new' impression. The farmers would once have said that is how to tie the pig.
So far the train was operated by the Railways led by Mauro Moretti, but in times of liberalization of transports, also Leonardo Express is becoming an object of contention. The NTV (Nuovo carriage of passengers) who is preparing to compete with Fs on high speed from September next year, would get even with his trains on the Rome-Fiumicino. Alitalia and Rome airports are in favor of this input, because in fact, they feel directly and poor damaged by the service offered to their customers by railway train. Alitalia, which now considers the Fs a competitor on the link above all more profitable, the Rome-Milan, suspected that the low quality of treatment offered between Airport and Rome is just part of a hostile environment. Rome Airports estimate that a little 'less than half of the approximately 34 million passengers arriving and departing (since 2009) use the trains .Everyone is not satisfied with the service received and to bring together often end up in negative opinion on the train also the operator of the airport.........