Because from March 30, flying from Linate with easyJet, you may find yourself on an ITA Airways plane.
Starting next March 30, booking a flight with easyJet from Milan Linate you may find yourself, once you get to the gate, [...]
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From next March 30, booking a flight from Milan Linate with easyJet. you may find yourself, once you get to the gate, at board an ITA Airways aircraft.
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Don't worry: as the screen located above the boarding exit will indicate, you won't have missed a gate or a flight. You will be at the right time in the right place.
Because, as stipulated in the conditions set by the European Antitrust Authority because the agreement between ITA and Lufthansa would go through., there is also that of the loan by the Italian and German carriers of some slots on the Milan city airport and the 'loan' (wet lease') by ITA to easyJet of a number of aircraft with related personnel for a certain period of time.
In detail, ITA will provide the British low-cost airline with three airplanes (Airbus A319 and A320) and just over a hundred pilots and flight attendants. The 'wet lease' will initially last for a period of 7 months (i.e. throughout Summer 2025, which ends next October 25, Renewable for a maximum of two times, that is, for another 14 months Under the agreements between the two companies. During the 'wet lease' period, ITA will not be able to use those three aircraft to operate its own flights as well, since easyJet will have full operational availability.
A curiosity: There will be an easyJet 'sentinel' on board aircraft in ITA livery and operated by ITA staff, who will oversee that the in-flight service complies with the procedures of any other easyJet flight. As on every flight of the British low-cost carrier, snacks and drinks will be available for a fee and, as La Repubblica newspaper reports, ITA flight attendants will receive the 10% 'commission' that their easyJet colleagues earn on what they manage to sell during the flight, 'in-flight boutique' items included.
EasyJet, as part of European antitrust regulations, also obtained rights to fly from Linate to three destinations that were previously the exclusive preserve of four Lufthansa Group companies, which would therefore have otherwise operated as a monopoly on those three routes, following ITA's entry into the Group.
It is about the Linate-Frankfurt (previously served only by Lufthansa and ITA), of the Linate-Vienna (previously served only by ITA and Austrian Airlines) and the Linate-Brussels (served only by ITA and Brussels Airlines).
Well, From March 30 on these three routes will be joined by flights operated by easyJet which to Frankfurt and Brussels will fly from Milan's city airport twice a day and to Vienna once a day.
Particularly convenient are the fares offered on the Linate-Frankfurt route., a route that has always been among the most expensive in Europe, in terms of ticket costs, even considering the shortness of the route, which is less than an hour's flight time. In fact, easyJet's prices start at 27 euros for the single route.
