ITA Airways is the new(ish) national airline of Italy, and the successor of Alitalia. While the airline belongs to the SkyTeam alliance for now (until Lufthansa completes its takeover), unfortunately there have been limited opportunities to actually redeem partner miles for travel on ITA, which has been quite frustrating.
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I booked JFK-FCO using the recent UR bonus transfer to Virgin. However, there is zero availability from Italy back to the U.S. Which is strange, as there is almost daily availability on the JFK-FCO segment for nearly all times.
I'm not seeing any availability for ITA from JFK - FCO. When are you seeing this? Thanks
July 28-31
Aug 3-7; 10-14
Oct 6-9; 12-14
For example, on Jul 28 Flying Blue shows 2 tickets each on all three JFK-FCO flights for 72K points
In October I booked "business class" SOF-FCO using VA miles, transferred from AX.
Flew on a Revenue ticket booked with ITA last month BRI-FCO-BLQ in Business but was unable to credit the miles to my FlyingBlue account.
It was impossible to book those flights on ITA metal using the FB portal. (It wanted to connect me at either CDG or AMS rather than FCO which would have wasted most of a day, plus a lot more $$ !).
I guess this inconvenience disappears if it is fully integrated into *A in due course.
Just booked a domestic LIN-BRI flight using Virgin. Cash fares were going for $200+ so this was useful. 30% transfer bonus from AMEX also so that was a cherry on top.
This post is inaccurate. The number of points is calculated for each flight, not the route. If you add connecting flights, the price will always increase...regardless of the distance band.
I've been trying to book ITA Airways via AirFrance with SkyMiles, but it seems the partnership has already ended. They don't even show ITA on Air France anymore. Bummer! Does anyone know what airlines partner with ITA now?
I am seeing the same - I searched for JFK-FCO in C but not seeing ANY availability via Airfrance not Virgin. Does anyone know how to redeem? Thank you!