I'm traveling to Florence from the UK by train in mid-September, taking the Lille to Lyon Part Dieu route, followed by Lyon to Florence (via Torino). The Eurostar / SNCF tickets have been booked for a while now, but the tickets for the Frecciarossa leg (Lyon - Florence) haven't yet been released. Tickets for the same leg are available from late October onwards, with an irritating 4 week gap of no ticket availability at the time I am due to travel.
I booked the same route last year with all the legs of the journey booked by now (the Frecciarossa having been available in March of last year). I've checked out possible strikes / planned maintenance, but nothing is showing up.
The question I'm looking an answer for is this - is this one of those normal quirks of ticket releasing (and I should just wait) or could there be some significant line closures planned / strikes? I've got an alternative route planned (Paris-Munich-Bologna-Florence), but I'd rather stick to my original route (hotels around the train station in Munich aren't exactly cheap, even if the route itself promises some beautiful landscapes).