ITA Airways and Lufthansa Group fly high: here's all the news from loyalty programs to benefits
The highly anticipated press conference, ITA Airways' first since it officially joined the Lufthansa Group in 2025, was held [...]
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The highly anticipated press conference, the first of ITA Airways since it entered, in 2025, officially into the Lufthansa Group, was held today at the headquarters of Rome Fiumicino, and TFC was there to hear all the news in the program.
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During the meeting-which was attended by top management of ITA Airways, the President Sandro Pappalardo and the CEO Joerg Eberhart, e Carsten Spohr, CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG - was launched first of all a Great news for all the frequent flyer and on the new partnership between the ITA Airways loyalty program Flying e Miles&More of Lufthansa Group.
A real surprise. Basically, the two loyalty programs become one.
In particular, this partnership guarantees the 2.7 million members Volare The ability to accumulate and use points on flights Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines and, at the same time, to the 36 million members of Miles&More, the ability to accumulate and use points on ITA Airways flights.
ITA Airways exits SkyTeam alliance and joins Star Alliance
But that is not all. During the press conference, ITA Airways has announced its exit from the SkyTeam alliance, by April 30, 2025, and entry, in the coming weeks, into Star Alliance, the largest global alliance in the aviation world. This second process will be completed around the beginning of 2026.
However, the Italian flag carrier points out, ITA Airways will continue to cooperate with some SkyTeam Alliance airlines Through the agreements in place, Maintaining the benefits available to customers.
As SkyTeam explains, customers are advised to contact directly to their airline for questions regarding SkyTeam Elite and Elite Plus benefits, SkyPriority services, lounge access and accumulation, and the Redemption of loyalty miles for upcoming travel with ITA Airways.
Other benefits for passengers
Lounge Access: ITA Airways passengers will have access to about 130 Lufthansa Group lounges, and for passengers of Lufthansa Group carriers, it will be possible to use ITA Airways lounges.
Terminals at Frankfurt and Munich airports: ITA Airways will move its operations to Lufthansa Group terminals in the two German hubs, thus facilitating and speeding up passenger transfers while in other Lufthansa Group hubs ITA Airways already operates in terminals where other Group carriers are located.
Codesharing: codeshare agreements will be initiated between ITA Airways and Lufthansa Group carriers; this synergy will enable passengers to combine flights operated by multiple Group carriers, thus providing ITA Airways passengers with access to about 250 destinations while Lufthansa Group customers will be able to reach destinations served by ITA Airways' network more easily.
Harmonized connections: Flights between Lufthansa Group's hubs (Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Vienna and Brussels) and the two main airports on which ITA Airways operates (Rome Fiumicino and Milan Linate) will see harmonized frequencies and schedules and better distribution throughout the day, thus offering passengers more choice and shorter connections between flights.
