ITA Airways to tie the knot with Emirates: code share agreement in place, frequent flyer agreement soon
The agreement regarding the mutual extension of frequent flyer program benefits is not yet there, although it is expected in a [...]
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The agreement concerning the Mutual extension of the benefits of frequent flyer programs still not there, although Is expected at a later stage. But The one signed by ITA Airways and Emirates is one of the code share agreements that will have the greatest effect for Italian passengers of the flag carrier because it opens wide to him the doors of the Emirates carrier's extensive network in the Middle East, Asia, the Far East and Africa.
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The Memorandum of Understanding transforming what was an interline agreement between the two airlines into a full-fledged code share was signed by Emirates vice president and CCO, Adnan Kazim, and ITA Airways president, Antonino Turicchi. Full connectivity between the two companies will include. a combined ticketing and seamless baggage transfers to the final destination.
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For Emirates this is the 34th code share agreement, But of the fourth only in Europe after those signed with Air Baltic, Air Malta and Tap Air Portugal. The one with ITA is therefore, considering the Italian company's fleet and network, the most relevant one signed in Europe by the Emirates carrier.
Which can also be explained by the fact that Italy's is the third largest market in Europe (after Britain's and Germany's) for Emirates, which to our country flies 41 times a week from its Dubai hub, landing in Rome Fiumicino (twice a day, including one with Airbus A380 and the other with Boeing 777-300ER), Milan Malpensa (two flights per day on Airbus A380s, one of which then continues in fifth freedom up to New York JFK) and to Bologna e Venice with Boeing 777-300ERs.
For ITA Airways, it is instead the 35th code share agreement signed in two and a half years (the second with a company from the emirates after the one with Etihad and the third in the Gulf area after the one with Kuwait Airways.), which is part of a strategy to put a large number of destinations around the world within reach of Italian travelers at a start-up stage where networks and fleets are still growing at a high rate and waiting for the formalization of The agreement with the Lufthansa Group., which will open up great prospects for ITA and its passengers.
Currently, The Middle East is a region from which, Tel Aviv aside, ITA is completely absent. But things will change starting next June, when with the brand new Airbus A321neo three-class Italian company you will be able to fly from Rome Fiumicino to Kuwait City, Jeddah and Riyadh..