Why cant I buy train tickets for summer travel in Italy from TRENITALIA?

hey hey bgench
it’s too early, schedule not up yet. Check first part of March.
aloha
GO NINERS!

Hey thanks so much or the reply...but the schedule is up online for those trains! It shows the schedule...take a look on Trenitalia's website for July 4th Rome to Florence...you cannot purchase the 1h36min express trips, only the super long ones!

I believe there's a schedule change in early June, and tickets on express trains for the period after the change are not available as early as they would usually be.

Last day that Freccia train tickets are for sale is Saturday June 13. Sunday June 14 is the start of the semiannual European wide schedule adjustment. So I am sure that is what this is all about. Just keep checking back periodically, they'll show up for sale eventually.

Italo's schedule goes blank after June 13 as well.

Excactly. You can buy tickets on June 14, but they may be available earlier.

Thanks for the replies...is anyone aware if the schedules that are posted will be what they are? Or is it possible the train times can/will change?

They usually don't change a whole lot. If anything, you might see more trains put on.

It's called "timetable change" because the timetable changes. The few trains you can already see today will run (otherwise why would they upload those trains?), but Trenitalia will gradually add more and more trains starting from late March / early April.

First the not-subsidized trains (aka the Freccia-something high speed ones), then the long distance Intercity trains paid by central government and last the local Regionales paid by the regions.

Most Europeans buy Long distance train tickets a couple of weeks in advance, not 6 months early. Most don't even know there is a timetable change because they never "stumble" upon it while checking the schedules.