Rome's Leonardo da Vinci international airport, known as Fiumicino, is set to open a major new boarding area to travellers on 19 May. Airport management company Aeroporti di Roma (AdR) has invested €400 million in building Boarding Area A, a three-storey structure covering 37,000 sqm and linked to Terminal 1.

Construction of the new boarding area, which will have 23 gates, began at the end of 2017 but was stalled by the covid lockdown in March 2020. The development will increase the annual number of passengers transiting through the airport by more than six million, reports La Repubblica which had a preview of the site ahead of its inauguration on 18 May.