In early 2025, we saw Lufthansa Group acquire a 41% stake in ITA Airways, the national airline of Italy (formerly known as Alitalia). We knew that Lufthansa Group had the option to acquire a majority stake in the airline after some amount of time, and that’s now happening.
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One can only wonder how many low-cost subsidiaries Carsten Spohr can start in Italy to p!ss off that country next, and create exciting new labor unrest.
Hoping they release business class TATL awards for ITA… haven’t seen any since they left Skyteam.
LH first class will now have re-heated spaghetti and pizza , and welcome wine will come in a straw-covered bottle for the guys . And tiramisu for the girls . Buongiorno .
I'm sure I saw something to Brazil at some point. Dates didn't work for me though.
All power to Star Alliance. Destruction to DieTeam. oneworld can go on as they usually do. I'd tell Lucky to go to hell, except that he's already there, flying all those DieTeam Flying Blue routes.
@PeteAU for the winning comment. When you join Lufty, there's only way forward: down, down, down.
Northern Italy is very efficient. Sadly, the hub is in Rome and Lufthansa is shit.