The national airline is Alitalia, which operates flights worldwide. Numerous other national airlines fly into Italy, including many low cost European airlines.

Approximate flight times to Rome are three hours from London, ten hours from New York, sixteen hours from Los Angeles and 24 hours from Sydney.

Italy has good road links with all the bordering countries to the north, many of which use the tunnels under the Alps. Public bus services operate on these routes.

There are also excellent rail links into Italy from mainland Europe on Italian State Railways (Trenitalia), including a fast regular service between Paris, Dijon and several Italian cities, which is operated jointly by Trenitalia and French Railways (SNCF). The Venice Simplon-Orient-Express service runs from London and Paris to Venice and Rome.

There are scheduled ferry services between Italy and ports in Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, Malta, Spain, Croatia, Montenegro. It is also possible to sail from Italian ports to locations in the Middle East, North and West Africa, the Far East and South America. Italy's main ports include Venice, Ancona, Bari and Brindisi.

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