Enhanced partnership unlocks greater than 30 one-stop itineraries with seamless connections
Every airline’s code will probably be added to 10 routes past their respective hubs in Rome and Toronto
Activating codeshare is a major milestone as ITA Airways’ prepares for entry into Star Alliance
MONTREAL and ROME, July 14, 2025 /CNW/ – Air Canada and ITA Airways as we speak introduced a major milestone of their partnership with a codeshare settlement that gives clients extra handy journey choices when flying between Canada and Italy, and past.
“We’re thrilled to broaden our partnership with ITA Airways via our new codeshare settlement that enhances our strong community to Italy. This deepening of ties will enable clients travelling on Air Canada to Rome-Fiumicino to conveniently e-book and seamlessly join to 10 well-liked locations throughout Italy, Africa, Israel and Albania. Likewise, ITA Airways clients arriving in Toronto will profit from entry to 10 key Canadian and U.S. cities throughout our community,” mentioned Mark Galardo, Government Vice President and Chief Business Officer, and President, Cargo at Air Canada.
“With work underway to facilitate ITA Airways’ entry into Star Alliance, we’re creating important partnership synergies. This may type the inspiration for a powerful, long-term relationship between our two flag-carrying airways.”
“The codeshare settlement with Air Canada is a good step ahead for our development technique,” mentioned Joerg Eberhart, Chief Government Officer and Common Supervisor of ITA Airways. “This partnership improves connectivity for our passengers touring between Italy and North America, our first market past Italy, serving each leisure and enterprise vacationers. Furthermore, it permits us to supply seamless connections for passengers of Italian origin residing in Canada and the US, facilitating their journeys to Italy and past, whereas offering them the chance to completely expertise the excellence of Made in Italy — a heritage that ITA Airways proudly represents as an envoy worldwide.”
Below the settlement, Air Canada will place its AC code on choose routes operated by ITA Airways from Rome-Fiumicino. These embody 5 well-liked locations in Italy: Lamezia Terme, Palermo, Catania, Florence and Bari; three factors in Africa, together with Cairo, and Tunis and Algiers; in addition to Tirana and Tel Aviv (the latter briefly suspended). ITA Airways will place its AZ code on chosen routes operated by Air Canada from Toronto Pearson, these embody: Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and St. John’s; and chosen providers from Canada to the US: Boston, Orlando, Dallas, and Fort Lauderdale.
*Routes to/from Tunis and Algiers are topic to governmental approval
Gross sales of codeshare tickets can be found as of as we speak, for journey beginning on July twenty first.
The airways are working in direction of implementing reciprocal incomes and redemption capabilities for his or her respective loyalty applications. ITA Airways can be within the strategy of becoming a member of the Star Alliance community as a full member, with work underway to facilitate full membership anticipated in early 2026.
This partnership enhances Air Canada’s rising community to Italy. This summer time, Air Canada will function as much as 39 weekly flights and over 13,000 weekly seats to Italy. In Might, it launched a brand new route between Montreal and Naples, the gateway to the Amalfi coast. Naples is the airline’s fourth continuous connection between Canada and Italy along with Rome, Milan, and Venice. As nicely, Air Canada gives intermodal rail connections with Trenitalia, the biggest practice operator in Italy, with high-speed, regional, in a single day and worldwide practice routes. Via these intermodal connections, clients will have the ability to journey to as much as 30 onward locations inside Italy.
Within the present summer time season, ITA Airways operates a complete of 59 locations, together with 16 intercontinental, 27 worldwide and 16 home routes. Through the summer time peak, the airline flies to 12 further seasonal locations within the Mediterranean — 3 home and 9 worldwide — from Rome Fiumicino and Milan Linate. These seasonal locations embody the Balearic Islands (Ibiza, Majorca, Menorca), a number of Greek islands (Rhodes, Heraklion, Corfu, Zakynthos, Kefalonia), in addition to the Italian islands of Lampedusa and Pantelleria. Moreover, along with seasonal routes, ITA Airways has just lately enhanced its providing to passengers, offering them with connections to over 100 further locations — each throughout Europe and on intercontinental routes—via codeshare agreements with 5 Lufthansa Group airways: Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airways, Brussels Airways, and Air Dolomiti.
