Summer capacity into FCO is tight. If your dates sit on a Jubilee, Easter, or a long Ferragosto weekend, send a flexible window. A nonstop from the US or Gulf can still beat a cheap European connection that lands you in CIA at 00:30.
Fiumicino
This is the airport we quote unless you ask otherwise. ITA, SkyTeam partners, and a mix of Gulf and US carriers sit here. The Leonardo Express to Termini is the default advice; it is crowded at push times and still better than improvising a taxi queue in August.
Italy as a multi-city
Rome in, Venice or Milan out is how a lot of first trips should be built. Pricing that as one itinerary is the point of our multi-city desk. Two separate cheap one-ways often lose the bags and the protection.
What we will not hide
If the inexpensive option is a 06:00 departure from a third Italian airport plus a train you did not ask for, the quote will say the airport code in the first line.