April 18, 2026

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1. ITA Airways' new website and app align with Lufthansa Group platform: (Transportation); A new website and app for ITA Airways: both digital channels have been developed on the Lufthansa Group’s technology platform for flight and service management. A harmonized experience across the Group’s ...; Created on 14 April 2026
2. ITA Airways returns to London Heathrow with two daily flights: (Transportation); ITA Airways has resumed flights from Rome Fiumicino to London Heathrow, with two daily flights. Lufthansa made the slots available This return to the UK’s main hub has been made possible thanks to ...; Created on 08 April 2026
3. ITA Airways joins Star Alliance: a milestone for global connectivity: (Transportation); ... is the 26th member of Star Alliance The event was celebrated yesterday in Terminal 3 at Rome Fiumicino Airport, in the presence of representatives from ITA, the Lufthansa Group and Star Alliance. From ...; Created on 01 April 2026
4. Olbia and Alghero airport network: 6.8 million seats and new routes: (Transportation); ... with flight capacity set to be 10% higher than in April 2025. Ryanair will launch its Kraków route as early as mid-March, whilst Lufthansa will bring forward its flights to Munich and Frankfurt. Early ...; Created on 31 March 2026
5. ITA Airways posts its first profit: €209 million in profits in 2025: (Transportation); It is finally time for profits at ITA Airways, which posted €209 million in profits in 2025. 2025 was a positive financial year The board of directors of the airline – in which Lufthansa holds a 41% ...; Created on 30 March 2026
6. ITA Airways to join the Miles&More loyalty programme on 1 April: (Transportation); ITA Airways is scheduled to join Lufthansa's Miles&More loyalty programme on 1 April. ITA Airways will be a fully integrated partner The process of integrating ITA Airways into the Lufthansa Group takes ...; Created on 25 March 2026
7. ITA Airways: from 5 May the airline’s content is available on NDC: (Transportation); ITA Airways is innovating and strengthening its distribution model, and from 5 May the airline’s content will be available on NDC. Aligning with other airlines in the Lufthansa Group Moving its content ...; Created on 23 March 2026
8. ITA Airways: updates on flights to the Middle East and India: (Transportation); ... reducing the number of flights due to capacity constraints, and the airport authority has required airlines within the Lufthansa Group to cancel all flights during the aforementioned period. Rebookings ...; Created on 18 March 2026
9. ITA Airways at the ITB: up to 47 weekly summer Germany-Italy flights: (Transportation); ... with a new exhibition space, the Italian Piazza, located on the Lufthansa Group stand where the international and local sales teams will welcome visitors and business partners during the exhibition. The ...; Created on 04 March 2026
10. Aeroporti di Roma: Fiumicino tops 50 million passengers for the first time: (Transportation); ... and the return of the Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong. The short and medium haul market was driven in particularly by carriers such as Wizz Air and easyJet, whlle the entry of Lufthansa into ITA Airways ...; Created on 29 December 2025
11. Aeroporti di Roma’s growth and innovation: Ivan Bassato's visio: (Transportation); ... the multi-hub development of Lufthansa Cargo.” Innovation is increasingly central to Aeroporti di Roma's strategy... "Of course. Innovation is a fundamental strategic element: our goal is to transform ...; Created on 17 December 2025
12. ITA Airways will introduce Houston-Rome flights on 1 May 2026: (Transportation); ... culminating with the entry of ITA Airways into Star Alliance, scheduled for 2026, as part of the integration into the Lufthansa Group." “It strengthens…mutual understanding and shared prosperity” "The ...; Created on 05 December 2025
13. ITA Airways updates sales systems: 24-hour stoppage 22 November: (Transportation); ... to offer its customers increasingly innovative and efficient services and shopping experiences, exploiting the important synergies with a strategic partner such as the Lufthansa Group.” The company then ...; Created on 20 November 2025
14. ITA Airways to return to LHR with two daily Rome Fiumicino flights: (Transportation); ... needs of travellers around the world In a note Lufthansa states that “ITA Airways” detailed summer schedule will be published at a later date (...). Throughout the summer season ITA Airways will continue ...; Created on 31 October 2025
15. ITA Airways: hard at work on hot topics for the future: (Transportation); ITA Airways is hard at work on hot topics for the future as it closes its first year in the Lufthansa Group. The road ahead of ITA is a long one, but it can be travelled one step at a time, and Emiliana ...; Created on 08 October 2025
16. ITA Airways: codeshare with United Airlines to and from the US: (Transportation); ... of growth in international markets, which will culminate with ITA's entry into Star Alliance, scheduled for 2026, following its integration into the Lufthansa Group." United has been serving Italy for more ...; Created on 16 September 2025
17. ITA Airways. The airline’s 2026-30 business plan focuses on long haul: (Transportation); ITA Airways' new industrial plan will focus on long-haul growth, fleet renewal and synergies with the Lufthansa Group. The focus will be on new long-haul routes Approved in August by the company's board ...; Created on 08 September 2025
18. Discover Airlines launches a new summer Frankfurt to Brindisi route: (Transportation); ... 23 October, are from Frankfurt at 10.45 a.m. and 8.30 a.m. and from Brindisi at 1.20 p.m. (Tuesdays) and 11.05 a.m. (Fridays). The Lufthansa group airline, which has been operating to and from Bari for ...; Created on 02 September 2025
19. ITA Airways: reciprocal premium services with the Lufthansa Group: (Transportation); Reciprocal premium services for ITA Airways and Lufthansa Group passengers will be available from 1 July. The new Premium Services will offer many benefits Thanks to the activation, from 1 July, of these ...; Created on 02 July 2025
20. ITA Airways focuses on corporate traffic at London’s Business Travel Show: (MICE & Events); ... and financial services sectors. Launched in March 2022, to date the programme has over 3 million members and counts 15 airlines among its partners, including Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Brussels ...; Created on 25 June 2025
21. ITA Airways: codeshare with Lufthansa Group on intercontinental routes: (Transportation); The codeshare between ITA Airways and Lufthansa Group companies will take off from 1 July 2025. A single ticket to the final destination The new codeshares on intercontinental routes will debut on ...; Created on 19 June 2025
22. ITA Airways raises the curtain on the new Milan Linate Runway Lounge: (Transportation); ... business and relaxation areas, meets all the needs of Lufthansa Group passengers,” explains CEO and general manager Joerg Eberhart. The lounge is a significant milestone for the company, which carried ...; Created on 14 May 2025
23. The style of ITA Airways and of its new CEO: (Editorial); ... is also the vision of a CEO, Joerg Eberhart, who, with his feet firmly on the ground, is focusing on the company's priorities in the wake of Lufthansa's 41% stake in the company. A CEO who is aiming for ...; Created on 09 May 2025
24. ITA Airways makes its debut at the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai: (Transportation); ... also benefit from additional connections to over 100 destinations thanks to codeshare flights with five Lufthansa Group airlines: Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Air Dolomit ...; Created on 30 April 2025
25. New easyJet ambitions for Italy: (Editorial); ... UK. At the beginning of April, easyJet inaugurated two new bases in Milan Linate and Rome Fiumicino. In Rome it also got new slots, by virtue of its role as remedy taker for the ITA-Lufthansa operation. ...; Created on 18 April 2025
26. ITA Airways has announced it will officially join Star Alliance in 2026: (Transportation); ... The process following entry into the Lufthansa Group can therefore proceed at full speed, with ITA's official entry into the Star Alliance network as a full member scheduled “for early 2026,-says Theo ...; Created on 07 April 2025
27. Genoa City Airport: a summer season of international connections: (Transportation); ... and Munich (Air Dolomiti - Lufthansa) are also confirmed. This summer charter flights for cruise passengers will resume, three years after the last service. Overall, there will be about 200 return flights ...; Created on 03 April 2025
28. Insatiable Lufthansa: (Editorial); The expansionist aims of the Lufthansa group seem to know no bounds. And they are destined to reshape Europe’s skies. Now that the ITAAirways deal has become a reality - even though the integration process ...; Created on 17 March 2025
29. ITA Airways: Southern Italy strategic for in and outbound traffic: (Transportation); ... which we will meet some 800 representatives of local travel agencies, who are essential partners for us.” Codeshares with the Lufthansa Group airlines From 30 March ITA passengers will also be able ...; Created on 14 March 2025
30. ITA Airways at the ITB Berlin: up to 59 weekly Germany-Italy flights: (Transportation); ITA Airways is back at the ITB in Berlin, at the Lufthansa Group stand for the third year running. Germany is a strategic market for ITA Airways Present for the airline at Stand 119 in Pavilion 25 ...; Created on 04 March 2025
31. KLM leaves Malpensa airport and moves all flights to Milan Linate: (Transportation); ... leaving Milan’s Malpensa airport This decision is favoured by the ITAAirways-Lufthansa merger, allowing KLM to benefit from the slots left free by ITA. The move to the Milanese Linate city airport also ...; Created on 03 March 2025
32. ITA Airways proudly displays the Alitalia brand on three aircraft: (Transportation); ... heritage, remained on the shelf. Until 2024 when it was decided to re-evaluate it, with Lufthansa - which on 17 January acquired a 41% stake in ITA Airways - deciding its fate. ITA's CEO Joerg Eberhart ...; Created on 20 February 2025
33. ITA-Lufthansa. What’s happening?: (Editorial); Well, what’s happening, in my opinion, is that things are happening now that should happen later. But let's take it a step at a time. Right now Lufthansa has a minority stake in ITA, but it is leading ...; Created on 13 February 2025
34. ITA Airways and Lufthansa. A new board and what lies ahead: (Transportation); The new chapter, still to be written, of the shared history of ITA Airways and Lufthansa officially kicked off on 15 January 2025, at the end of the operation that led LH to acquire a 41% stake in the ...; Created on 20 January 2025
35. ITA Airways. The ball is now in Lufthansa's cour: (Editorial); ... of the carrier reborn from the ashes of the old Alitalia. Of which, let’s not forget, it holds the glorious brand, purchased in 2021 to the sum of €90 million. Carsten Spohr, CEO of the Lufthansa group, ...; Created on 17 January 2025
36. ITA Airways-Lufthansa: the circle closes: (Editorial); The end of 2024 coincides with the closing of the circle on the ITA Airways-Lufthansa versus EU Antitrust affair. On 29 November Brussels gave its unconditional approval to the transaction with the two ...; Created on 20 December 2024
37. Italy is easyJet’s second largest market: 4 bases and 27 new routes by 2025: (Transportation); ... next summer Overall, the carrier is expanding its offer between Italy and Germany by over 50% “a market where we have been studying a possible expansion for some time, even before the ITA-Lufthansa operation” ...; Created on 19 December 2024
38. EasyJet across Italy: two new bases in Rome Fiumicino and Milan Linate: (Transportation); ... Switzerland, Belgium and Austria, offsetting the risk of monopoly by Ita-Lufthansa on the same routes. Three ITA A302s on wetlease Thus easyJet’s future as a remedy maker takes on precise contours, ...; Created on 10 December 2024
39. Lufthansa has activated the Face Pass biometric system at Naples Airport: (Digital); Face Pass, the biometric facial recognition system implemented thanks to a pilot project in partnership with Lufthansa, is now operational at Naples airport. A face scan allows self-mode boarding Passengers ...; Created on 26 November 2024
40. ITA Airways launches “Inspired by Alitalia”: (Transportation); ... of the carrier's new Northern Italian commercial offices, a positive close to the first semester and the upcoming marriage with Lufthansa. And the return of the historic Alitalia brand has popped up initially ...; Created on 04 October 2024
41. Ryanair: 10 new Malpensa routes and aiming for 60 million passengers in Italy: (Transportation); ... by delays in Boeing deliveries and by changed market scenarios, from the ITA Airways-Lufthansa agreement to the closure of easyJet’s base in Venice. “We aim to transport 4.5 million passengers at Malpensa” ...; Created on 03 October 2024
42. Ancona Airport and Lufthansa: you could call it a question of feeling: (Transportation); Ancona airport - and the Marche region in general – and their constantly growing appeal (you could call it a questions of feeling) for Lufthansa has led to a real boom in foreign tourists to the region. ...; Created on 19 September 2024
43. ITA Airways-Lufthansa: where were we?: (Editorial); Nostalgics of the ITA Airways-Lufthansa affair can rest assured, it is a never-ending story. And with no shortage of twists and turns. After the July go-ahead from the European Commission's Antitrust ...; Created on 13 September 2024
44. The new era of Rome Fiumicino airport: (Editorial); ... da Vinci Airport as it is poised to become the new hub of the Lufthansa Group, following the green light from the EU to the merger between the German airline and ITA Airways. And what a dowry ITA brings ...; Created on 12 July 2024
45. ITA Airways-Lufthansa. The EU gives its blessing to the merger: (Transportation); After more than seven months of intense negotiations, the EU has officially given its blessing to the ITA Airways-Lufthansa merger. There were extensive concessions by both parties As expected the ...; Created on 04 July 2024
46. Genoa’s Cristoforo Colombo Airport: international travel drives growth: (Transportation); ... traffic with an increase of 17% (against +10% for passengers on domestic flights). KLM and Lufthansa operate from Amsterdam and Munich This year the network includes 18 routes and among the summer ...; Created on 08 May 2024
47. Lufthansa’s tradeoffs for access to ITA Airways: (Editorial); The designated date is 6 June: the new deadline by which the European Commission will evaluate Lufthansa’s proposals to earn the green light for the acquisition of ITA Airways. Things have been dragging ...; Created on 19 April 2024
48. ITA Airways-LH and the undiminished appeal of the Alitalia brand: (Editorial); ... by the Lufthansa group. Indeed, in the last few days a series of “extreme” requests have arrived, as have some tough “sacrifices” for both sides if the merger is to go ahead. These go from the cession ...; Created on 26 February 2024
49. ITA Airways: the focus is on nearby and transcontinental markets: (Transportation); Pierfrancesco Carino, vice president international sales of ITA Airways, speaking at the Wtm, outlined the carrier’s plans for nearby and transcontinental markets. New Milan Linate-London City flights ...; Created on 22 November 2023
50. The European Commission slows the momentum on ITA-Lufthansa: (Editorial); It is unclear why the Lufthansa-ITA agreement is taking so long. The European Commission is pushing for the carriers to relinquish some slots on North America. Why?They are very profitable routes, so why ...; Created on 13 November 2023