Trenitalia

Following the incident, Trenitalia pulled 508 cars from active service and promised to maintain standards of cleanliness in the others. The name "opodo" is an ambigram, with rotational symmetry. In October 2005, the company suffered a public-relations problem when customer complaints of bedbug and tick infestation culminated in passengers storming off a train in Genoa, resulting in police being called to restore calm. Opodo also runs other successful online travel businesses such as Travellink in the Nordic region (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finaland) - see http://www.travellink.no, http://www.travellink.se, http://www.travellink.dk, http://www.travellink.fi, and in France Karavel at http://www.karavel.fr and http://www.promovacances.fr and http://www.vivacances.fr as well as a tour operator offering tailor-made deals to Australia, New Zealand, Middle East, South Africa, America, and the Far East from the UK at http://www.questtravel.co.uk. The company operates the ETR 500 high-speed train, and is also a partner in the Cisalpino Italy - Germany - Switzerland link. For United Kingdom customers see http://www.opodo.co.uk, for German customers see http://www.opodo.de, for French customers see http://www.opodo.fr, for Italian customers see http://www.opodo.it Spanish customers should visit: http://www.opodo.es. Trenitalia offers transport around Italy (including a service to Sicily), and also connects to Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Slovenia, Spain, and Switzerland. Opodo operates out of nine European countries.

It is partially state-owned, and is part of the state-owned company Ferrovie dello Stato. Opodo offers a full worldwide range of travel products including flights (from more than 500 scheduled and low cost airlines), package holidays, dynamic packaging, city-breaks, hotels, car rental, event tickets, excursions, ski holidays, cottages, holiday rentals, and cruises. Trenitalia is the primary operator of trains within Italy. The travel technology provider Amadeus is a majority shareholder. It is a pan-European enterprise, owned by a consortium of European airlines, including British Airways, Air France, Alitalia, Iberia, KLM, Lufthansa, Aer Lingus, Austrian Airlines and Finnair. Opodo is like Orbitz an Internet travel agency.