In early 2025, Lufthansa Group acquired a 41% stake in Italy’s ITA Airways. Italy is an important market for all major European carriers, and it’s one where SkyTeam has historically been strongest, so Lufthansa Group wanted to change that.
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ITA reward flights were rare so hopefully with the shift to Star Alliance, there will actually be availability.
The 'shuffle' between Alitalia/ITA going from SkyTeam to Star Alliance and SAS from Star Alliance to SkyTeam kinda sorta balances things out, no?
As a longtime expat based in the ME, I already see a good deal of ITA availability on Aeroplan award search, which I am delighted with. ITA redemption from/to CAI or RUH will be a good deal for me.
well... considering popularity as tourist destination as well as geography for general flight connection, I would say, ITA acquisition would be much more valuable than that of SAS.
Their regional network is a lot less useful than that of SAS- e.g. they have just one hub, they don't go to major countries like Poland, Romania Portugal or Morocco, only fly year-round to two cities in Spain, one each in Greece, France and the UK etc. The only real benefit to *A flyers at this point is the opportunity to avoid Air Dolomiti flights when flying from/to the Italian regions.
From the individuals point of view, that’s less straightforward. My local airport (DUB) has 0 ITA routes. It has SAS flights to 3 airports - CPH, ARN, OSL.
So SAS is objectively more useful to me.
Are ya sure of that effective date 01 April ?? ..... No foolin' !! What could possibly go wrong... we are talking a 'Luftwaffe' endeavor .... lol
Thats pretty good news! Have some Biz Flights with them mid April so I can credit the Miles to TK M&S to keep my Star Alliance Gold 😀
At least in Theory, that should work out