Ryanair to launch new UK-Italy route this October, authorities to keep up progress forecasts regardless of US tariffs, and extra information from Italy on Tuesday.
Ryanair to launch new UK-Italy route this October
Irish finances airline Ryanair has introduced that it’ll launch a brand new UK-Italy route this October as a part of plans to strengthen its presence within the Italian market.
The service stated it will function thrice-weekly flights (Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays) between Birmingham Airport and Rome Ciampino beginning on Sunday, October twenty sixth.
Located southeast of Rome’s metropolis centre, Ciampino is the capital’s second worldwide airport after Fiumicino.
It is linked to central Rome through a number of bus providers, together with traces operated by public transport firm ATAC.
The new Birmingham-Rome route was introduced simply over two weeks after Ryanair stated it will lengthen twice-weekly flights between London Stansted and Sicily’s Trapani Birgi Airport till March 2026, following their success over the summer season.
Ryanair has been within the information in current weeks after asserting it will lower 36 Spanish routes by this winter in response to a nationwide airport price hike.
Ryanair’s CEO Eddie Wilson stated earlier this month that Italy was a key vacation spot for a number of the redirected capability from Spain.
“We have 300 new planes to allocate to aggressive airports, and we’re taking them to different nations reminiscent of Morocco and Italy,” he stated.
Italy to keep up progress forecasts regardless of US tariffs
Italy plans to keep up GDP progress forecasts of 0.6 p.c this 12 months and 0.8 p.c in 2026 in its upcoming finances legislation regardless of uncertainties linked to US tariffs, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti stated on Sunday.
The estimates for GDP progress had been first made in April, with the federal government already accounting for the potential influence of US tariffs on the nation’s financial system, Giorgetti stated.
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“We had already factored within the influence of the commerce struggle and every little thing that got here with it,” the minister informed reporters in Rome, including that his administration felt “assured” about confirming the earlier estimates.
Italy’s financial system contracted by 0.1 p.c within the second quarter of this 12 months, with the development believed to have been pushed by a stoop in commerce.
Industrial output, nonetheless, rose over the summer season, easing considerations over the state of the nation’s long-struggling manufacturing sector.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s authorities should submit its up to date GDP forecasts and finances targets to parliament by October 2nd.
This is about to pave the best way for ministers to start engaged on subsequent 12 months’s finances.
Russian bobsled and skeleton athletes barred from 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics
The International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) has introduced that Russian athletes received’t compete on the upcoming Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, confirming a long-standing ban that was first imposed within the aftermath of Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
The IBSF stated in a press release that its Congress had “determined by secret poll to not enable the participation of Russian athletes as impartial athletes” in future worldwide occasions, together with the Winter Olympics.
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The transfer got here after the International Luge Federation additionally confirmed its Olympic ban for Russian athletes in June.
Although Russian Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev stated that Moscow would enchantment the IBSF’s resolution, it was unclear whether or not it will find a way to take action earlier than the beginning of the Games, that are set to open on February sixth in Milan.
“I agree with and assist the IBSF’s resolution,” American bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor informed NBC.
“Sport must be used to advertise peace and honest play, and we have to stand agency in opposition to those that do not assist these values,” she added.
