Those who often travel by train will surely have wondered: better Italo or Frecciarossa? What is more convenient? Having ascertained that, on the Milan-Rome route (which from now on is the one we will consider), the difference in travel times is laughable, the real discriminating factor remains the price.
Even here, however, we discover that it is difficult to find a winner, but that, indeed, the two competitors continue parallel and very close in the battle for prices and that the answer to the question boils down to an interlocutory "It depends".
After cross-checking the fares of over 2.500 trips in the space of two weeks, "laRepubblica" has in fact come to the conclusion that the greater convenience of Ntv or Trenitalia, in the entropic range of offers, depends on various contextual factors: the day on which you travel, the advance with which you buy the ticket and also, curiously, the day of the week on which you buy it.
In the impossibility of determining, therefore, which of the two competitors is "better" (Italo has a significantly higher percentage of tickets under 50 euros, but the cheapest, only 9 euros, is from Frecciarossa), "laRepubblica", based on the sample analysed, however, traced some trends for low-cost travel: for example, the day when it is most convenient traveling with Frecciarossa is on Tuesday (buying the ticket one month in advance and preferably on the weekend), while with Italian on Wednesdays. This on the Milan-Rome route, while on trains departing from Rome it is very difficult to find tickets on offer.
Obviously, the advance with which you buy the ticket is important: two days before departure, Repubblica indicates, it will now be completely impossible to find tickets in the lower price ranges. The only certainty, in the end of everything, is not to reduce to the last minute.
