ITA Airways extends the life of former Alitalia A330s: here's where they will fly until Dec. 31

ITA Airways has 'extended the life' of its Airbus A330-200s until the last day of 2025.

In fact, according to the specialized website aeroroutes.com, the -200 will operate on three routes through 2025: the Rome-Boston, some of the rotations between Rome and Delhi, and some of the rotations between Rome and New York (JFK).

In addition, always the -200, they will operate Three rotations between Rome and Rio de Janeiro on the dates of November 17, 24 and 29.

Previously, Aeroroutes also reports, the operations of the -200 were scheduled up to and including October 31. ITA's 'mantra' has always been to retire Alitalia's legacy airplanes with interiors that are now dated compared to those of the A330-900 and A350-900, by the end of 2025. But not at the expense of capacity and operational efficiency.

Taking the place of the -200 would be the -900. And so it was, in the sense that To date, of the eight-200 inherited from Alitalia, five remain in the fleet (four of them operational and one used as a 'relief' airplane), against the entry of 11 A330-900s.

However, the last -900 was delivered to Rome in July 2024, so it has been ten months since any arrived from Toulouse.

It may be this factor (evidently related to Airbus and completely outside ITA's control) that has led the Italian airline to extend the 'life' of the -200s until the last day of the year. With the possibility, at this point far from remote, that the old airplanes will remain in service even for part of 2026, perhaps until the beginning of Summer 2026.