The German aviation group Lufthansa wants to replicate in Italy the "model" successfully tested in Germany that provides for greater integration between train and plane. This is what emerges from the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance and the airline based in Cologne on the privatization of the flag carrier ITA Airways. It is a strategy on which the FS Group also aligns. “The issue of multimodality has always been on the agenda, so it is clear that in the future we will see more and more close collaboration between airports, trains, roads and airplanes,” said Luigi Ferraris, CEO of the Italian State Railways Group, on the sidelines of the presentation of the new Ducati Corse livery for the Frecce trains in Rome. This is an answer to the question of Lufthansa's desire for closer integration between train and plane, which would be functional to a disengagement of the airline on short or unprofitable routes. From this point of view, the European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager has agreed with the FS Group to put on track a single train-plane ticket within a few months. In this way a traveler departing from Tokyo to Florence will have in hand only one air reservation for Rome that will allow him to continue to Tuscany. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the Group has identical agreements with the national railways (Deutsche Bahn, Öbb and Sbb).