An investigation is underway after a cargo plane overshot the runway at Bergamo airport in the early hours of Friday morning, before crashing through the perimeter fence and sliding onto a road.
Workers at Rome's Fiumicino Airport were forced to push a 36-tonne passenger jet out onto the runway on Sunday, after a technical problem stopped it from taking off.
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.
Security was immediately strengthened at airports and train stations in Rome and elsewhere in Italy after at least 21 people were killed in terror attacks in Brussels on Tuesday morning.
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.
Alitalia said on Tuesday it had lost €80 million euros as a result of a fire at Rome's main airport in May but insisted its recovery plan remained on track after the abrupt departure of its chief executive last month.
A late-running Italian man was arrested on Thursday night after phoning police to allege a bomb threat - so that he wouldn’t miss his flight from Turin’s Caselle airport.
Etihad Airways’ President and Chief Executive Officer, James Hogan, has urged the Italian government to urgently tackle poor infrastructure at Rome’s Fiumicino airport or risk future investment.
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.
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.
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.
