ITA-Lufthansa, first network news arrives after closing: Linate-Munich flights start March 31

From Monday, March 31 (which corresponds to the second day of Summer 2025 air transport), ITA Airways will begin connecting Milan Linate airport with Munich. I twelve flights per week are a further seal To the Italian carrier's entry into the Lufthansa Group., since will procure feederage to the German airline's flights, including and especially long-haul flights.

In fact, it will depart from Linate at 7:30 a.m., landing in Bavaria at 8:35 a.m. And over the next three hours from Lufthansa's hub. a dozen intercontinental departures are scheduled. Ditto for the evening flight, scheduled at 5:30 p.m. with arrival in Munich at 6:35 p.m.: in this case are half a dozen LH long-haulers departing in the next three hours.

The schedules, however, are also perfect for those who need to travel to the capital of Bavaria (or, vice versa, from there to Milan) with a same-day round trip, since the two flights from Munich to Linate are scheduled at 9:35 a.m. with arrival at the city airport at 10:40 a.m. and at 7:35 p.m. with arrival in Milan at 8:40 p.m.

 

The two links (who will not operate between August 1 and 31) will be daily between Monday and Friday, while Saturday there will be only morning flights and Sunday only evening flights, and will be entrusted to the smallest aircraft in ITA's force, the 125-seat Airbus A220-100.

They will complement an already dense network of connections between Milan and Munich, operated by Air Dolomiti, Lufthansa and easyJet.

Air Dolomiti now operates two daily flights between Linate and Franz Josef Strauss, as well as 26 weekly flights to and from Malpensa, all with 122-seat Embraer ERJ-195s; Lufthansa has six weekly flights to and from Malpensa with 90-seat Canadair CRJ-900s; easyJet also flies from Malpensa 4 times a week with a 156-seat Airbus A319.

With the start of Summer, next March 30., Air Dolomiti's flights to and from Linate will always remain two (and, as of March 31, will be joined by ITA's), while to and from Malpensa flights will increase to 5 daily, including 4 operated by Air Dolomiti again with ERJ-195 and one by Lufthansa again with CRJ-900, while easyJet's will increase to 6 weekly, again with A319.

The other major new feature of flights between Milan and Germany is constituted by, As we have already written about in The Flight Club, From the two routes between Linate and Frankfurt, operated as of March 30, by easyJet with airplanes and crews received on wet lease from ITA Airways in compliance with European antitrust regulations related to the closing of the agreement between the Italian carrier and Lufthansa Group.

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