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ITA Airways and Lufthansa Group Unveil Main Codeshare Growth, Unlocking Over One Hundred New Flight Connections Throughout Europe
Thursday, February 27, 2025
ITA Airways and Lufthansa Group have taken a major step in direction of enhancing connectivity for vacationers by introducing a mutual codeshare settlement. For the primary time, the route networks of ITA Airways and Lufthansa Group’s airways—together with Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airways, Brussels Airways, and Air Dolomiti—shall be seamlessly built-in, permitting passengers to e-book mixed itineraries with ease.
With the launch of this collaboration, over 100 new codeshare connections at the moment are out there for reserving, beginning with the summer season 2025 schedule. This partnership allows vacationers to get pleasure from a broader number of flights and better flexibility. Even when flying with a number of airways, passengers will profit from a single ticket that includes a unified flight quantity for switch connections. Moreover, baggage shall be checked by to the ultimate vacation spot for added comfort.
Loyalty program members of each ITA Airways’ Volare and Lufthansa Group’s Miles & Extra may even achieve from this collaboration, as they’ll accumulate and redeem miles or factors on codeshare flights, additional enhancing the journey expertise.
Dieter Vranckx, Chief Business Officer, Lufthansa Group, stated: “ITA Airways is now an integral part of the offering for our joint passengers. With just one booking, a customer of the Lufthansa Group can use ITA Airways’ synchronized connecting flights with its airline’s flight numbers. Codesharing will further improve and harmonize the travel experience of all passengers at the Lufthansa Group’s hubs. The integration of ITA Airways as part of the Lufthansa Group is progressing rapidly and now enables far-reaching advantages in the offering for our joint customers through code sharing.”
Beginning 30 March 2025, with the launch of the summer season flight schedule, chosen ITA Airways flights will function underneath the flight numbers of Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airways, and Brussels Airways. This integration covers year-round home connections inside Italy from Rome-Fiumicino, in addition to worldwide routes from Rome to Malta, Athens, Sofia, and Tirana.
For the primary time, Lufthansa Group prospects can e-book ITA Airways flights to locations equivalent to Alghero (Sardinia), Pantelleria (Sicily), and Reggio di Calabria, additional increasing their journey choices. Moreover, codeshare agreements will prolong to ITA Airways flights connecting Italy with Lufthansa Group hubs.
As an illustration, underneath the brand new codeshare system, a Lufthansa passenger can e-book a Frankfurt to Rome flight underneath flight quantity LH236 and seamlessly proceed their journey to Brindisi with ITA Airways underneath Lufthansa flight quantity LH5078. This affords extra flexibility and connectivity past Lufthansa’s current routes to Brindisi.
Conversely, ITA Airways passengers will achieve better entry to Lufthansa Group’s community, enabling them to plan multi-airline journeys throughout Europe. Initially, this codeshare settlement will give attention to European routes, permitting ITA Airways passengers to conveniently attain locations throughout Northern, Central, and Japanese Europe with a single reserving. As soon as the codeshare program is absolutely applied, ITA Airways prospects will have the ability to select from over 250 locations worldwide by the Lufthansa Group community.
