ITA Airways sale, goodbye Star Alliance hypothesis the airline will remain in Skyteam
The consequences of the government's decision on the sale of ITA Airways also impact the lives of frequent flyers. [...]
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The consequences of the Government's decision on the sale of ITA Airways also have an impact on the lives of frequent flyers. The decision to enter into exclusive negotiations with Certares and minority partners such as Delta and Air Frace means above all that the Italian company will remain in the current Skyteam alliance And it will not move to Star Alliance.
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ITA Airways had decided to tie up, at least temporarily, to Skyteam, an alliance in which Alitalia had always participated, in recent months, however. ITA has never fully integrated With the other carriers.
At this point it can be expected that in the coming weeks there will be a real acceleration both in the recognition of Volare status when flying with other Skyteam alliance members than in accumulating points when flying with other carriers.
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In fact, to date ITA has been sort of separated at home: formally within the alliance, but in fact status holders were already excluded from any benefit. Unable with Air France status to access ITA Airways lounges and likewise impossible to accumulate points on the Flying card by flying Saudia .
Personally, I've always said I'm rooting for the German-Italian stringer., now, however, we have to deal with the decision of the government, which will still remain a partner in the 40%, although the sale price of this share has also already been set upon the occurrence of a number of results.
All that remains at this point is to hope for peer treatment in the alliance and not, as was the case with Alitalia, as a second-class member. If so, we might expect to be able to take advantage of not only Skyteam but also the close partnership that ties Delta to Virgin Atlantic and the Air France KLM Group. In this case, interesting scenarios would open up for Italian frequent flyers with the possibility of use Fly points for Also book award tickets on the hottest planes in circulation.
Regarding the loyalty program, the few things that are working to date in the Volare program have been borrowed a lot from the Skymiles and FlyingBlue programs. It would be very nice to see a merge of the points as happened recently between Qatar and British Airways, but I doubt it will ever happen. At most we can hope for more award seats to fly with ITA's "member" carriers.
Looking at my personal gain, this solution. Is the best to allow me to maintain Platinum status in Flying Blue, while I will let my ITA Airways executive card die. making no sense to accumulate flights and points on two programs of the same alliance.
