ITA Airways, the nationwide airline of Italy, has simply put its latest transatlantic route on sale (as flagged by AeroRoutes), which can symbolize the service’s first path to Canada.
ITA Airways will fly from Rome to Toronto
As of Might 10, 2024, ITA Airways will launch flights between Rome (FCO) and Toronto (YYZ). The service will initially function 6x weekly, earlier than working day by day as of June 1, 2024. The flight can have the next schedule:
AZ650 Rome to Toronto departing 10:15AM arriving 2:05PM
AZ651 Toronto to Rome departing 5:15PM arriving 7:50AM (+1 day)
The 4,415-mile flight is blocked at 9hr50min westbound and 8hr35min eastbound. ITA Airways intends to make use of an Airbus A330 for the route, with some frequencies operated by the A330-200, and others operated by the A330-900neo. The latter encompasses a far superior onerous product, so I’d advocate reserving that if in any respect attainable.
How this matches into ITA Airways’ route community
Toronto might be ITA Airways’ first vacation spot in Canada, and enhances the service’s seven locations in america, together with Boston (BOS), Chicago (ORD), Los Angeles (LAX), Miami (MIA), New York (JFK), San Francisco (SFO), and Washington (IAD).
As of now, ITA Airways continues to be within the SkyTeam alliance, and it’s attainable to redeem Air France-KLM Flying Blue miles and Virgin Atlantic Flying Membership factors for journey on the airline (different SkyTeam companions don’t appear to have entry to the identical house). Nevertheless, remember that Lufthansa Group intends to amass ITA Airways, during which case the airline will possible ultimately be a part of Star Alliance.
Because it presently stands, ITA Airways is taking a reasonably unbiased strategy to route planning. Whereas the airline belongs to SkyTeam, it’s excluded from the SkyTeam transatlantic three way partnership, which in any other case consists of Air France-KLM, Delta, and Virgin Atlantic.
Not less than ITA Airways does have some connectivity at US airports by way of Delta. The airline gained’t have that very same stage of connectivity in Toronto, the place the airline has no home partnerships. Who is aware of, possibly that may change over time, as I’m certain any of Air Canada’s opponents could be comfortable to associate with ITA.
Backside line
Toronto will turn into ITA Airways’ first vacation spot in Canada, complementing the service’s service to seven locations in america. The brand new flight is already on sale, so it’s good to see extra choices for Canadian vacationers. ITA Airways is increasing properly… I’m simply curious to see what the long run holds for the service’s possession.
What do you make of ITA Airways’ growth to Toronto?
