ITA Airways has revealed its first changes for summer 2024, which include new connections from Chicago and Toronto to Rome Fiumicino.
ITA’s 2023-24 winter schedule will include 52 destinations
“Intercontinental travel has driven our growth over the last two years, – says Emiliana Limosani, CCO of ITA Airways– and today it makes up 45% of our revenues globally. In terms of flights, 45% are point to point, and 55% are connections.” ITA’s 2023-24 winter schedule will include 52 destinations: 17 national, 23 international and 12 intercontinental.
“We are leaders from South America to Italy”
“Our next stop is the opening of the Rome Fiumicino-Rio de Janeiro. South America, where we already operate flights to Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires, is a market in which we are leaders in terms of traffic to and from Italy thanks to one of the largest communities of Italians in the world. From December we will once again fly to the Maldives, a highly sought-after destination for leisure traffic."
A rapidly growing network
These flights are in addition to those already active to New York, both from Rome Fiumicino and Milan Malpensa and those to Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Tokyo and New Delhi operated from Rome Fiumicino. The schedule will also include the debut of the Chicago-Rome flight from 7 April with 6 weekly flights (which will become 7 from June), and the Toronto-Rome flight from 1 May, with 6 weekly flights (which will increase to 7 from June). 2024 will also see the introduction of flights to Riyadh from May; Accra and Kuwait City, from June; to Dakar, from July and to Jeddah from October. 2requencies on the routes "for Southern Italy and the islands, those between Rome and Frankfurt and between Rome and Munich will then be increased.”
“In 2024 ITA will operate with 96 aircraft”
2023 also saw the ITA Airways fleet grow to the current 79 Airbus aircraft, of which 29 are latest generation. The first Airbus A321neo is expected to enter the fleet by the end of the year. “It will be the first narrow body aircraft configured with three separate cabins: Business Class (12 seats), Premium Economy (12 seats) and Economy (141 seats), of which 12 will be Comfort Economy," The first Airbus A220-100 will enter service at the end of 2023. "2024 will see ITA operate with a fleet of 96 aircraft - compared to 52 at the start of operations two years ago - of which 66% are new generation" said general manager, Andrea Benassi.
