ITA Airways soon to announce Skyteam benefits and specify award ticket pricing: it will be dynamic
At a press conference held in the Piazza di Spagna lounge, ITA Airways management presented details of the [...]
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At a press conference held in the Piazza di Spagna lounge, the management of ITA Airways presented the details of the Volare program, those we explained yesterday by taking the information posted on the company's website. Here are the highlights announced today:
Skyteam
This is one of the sore points that most leaves all members stunned, especially those accustomed to frequent travel with other companies and who to date have not yet seen the privileges provided by the statuses recognized, despite several announcements.
Thanks to the partnership with SkyTeam, all Club-related services, which to date are available for all ITA Airways flights, will soon be extended to airlines that are part of this network, giving members access to more than 1,000 destinations worldwide. In addition, as part of ITA Airways' business expansion strategy, the company is committed to building an ecosystem of partnerships to offer Volare members even more products and services on which to make accrual and redemption of points.
It is therefore confirmed, As we wrote in our articles yesterday e of today, the impossibility in the current state to accumulate points by flying with partner airlines, much less book award tickets on airlines other than ITA.
Exclusive Clubs
The only change from what we already knew is that clients with the Executive level, the highest in the Volare loyalty program, will receive the physical card and a welcome gift.
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Otherwise no news, the information that had already been posted on the site regarding multipliers and the accumulation of points needed to obtain/renew status.
To date, the program has about 275,000 members, of which about 40,000 are Elite members (i.e., Club Plus, Premium and Executive). This is an important result, also because it is consolidated in the international market: suffice it to say that 35% of Status Match campaign members were from foreign airlines. Preliminary analysis also shows that Volare members buy and fly more than non-member customers, confirming the importance of the program in increasing our customers' satisfaction.
Award tickets
The explanation that had left many doubts for all the members who have been analyzing what was published on the official website in recent hours has arrived.
The number of points needed for award flights will vary depending on the value of the ticket at that time
This means that pricing will not be fixed but will be dynamic. Now, however, a lot of care will have to be taken, since ITA Airways has already set the minimum cost and for an intercontinental business class ticket it starts at 390 thousand points. To understand the real value much will depend on the final cost. Of course, the total number might be scary, but it will all depend on the ease with which points can be accumulated: by flying and through the various business partners.
Summer season flights
ITA will reach 64 destinations this summer, including 23 domestic, 34 international and 7 intercontinental. Just today the first flight, AZ0630, Rome Fiumicino - Miami, departed at 11 a.m., kicking off the new intercontinental operation. It will be operated every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday. Tomorrow, March 2, the first Rome Fiumicino - Boston flight will depart, and will be operated every Wednesday and Saturday, rising to 3 weekly frequencies starting the last week of March.
The Rome Fiumicino - Miami and Rome Fiumicino - Boston frequencies will increase during Summer 2022 and will increase from 3 to 5 weekly frequencies in April and May, to daily frequencies in June through September.
ITA Airways' first intercontinental flight from Milan Malpensa to New York JFK will depart on April 2. It will be operated every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday
From June 2022, new destinations from Rome Fiumicino to Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Tokyo will also start. The direct flight from Rome Fiumicino to Tokyo Haneda will be operated with 5 weekly frequencies and A330s; starting in August, flights will become daily.
ITA also confirmed that the first A350s, the new flagship, will enter service this summer but without specifying on which routes they will be used.
- 6,000 Mile Registration Bonus
- Collect miles WITH EACH PURCHASE
- Your miles with no expiration*
- No fees for ATM withdrawals and foreign purchases
- Without having to change banks
- Autonomous card activation
- Multi-function mobile application
- Free travel insurance
- Free credit for up to 7 weeks
- Contactless Payment
- Mastercard® SecureCode
- 20€ discount directly in your statement by spending €60 in one or more transactions with Carta on Italotreno.it
- Free fee the 1st year. From the 2nd €5.50 per month
- You can choose to pay in full or in installments
- Premium level of the Italo Più program
- 4 Vouchers per year for access to Italo Club Lounges
- Preferential Access to Italo's Fast Track at the station
- For every 5 purchases of Italo ticketing and/or onboard services made with Italo American Express Credit Card you will receive 1 voucher for room upgrade
- Welcome bonus of 100,000 Volare points upon reaching 6 thousand in spending in the first 3 months after card issuance
- Accumulate 1.5 qualifying Volare points for every euro spent, accumulate an additional 3 non-qualifying Volare points ( for a total of 4.5 Volare points) for every euro spent on ticketing purchases and other services offered by ITA Airways
- Access to the Premium Club of ITA Airways' Volare program.
- ITA Airways Lounge Access
- Free excess baggage
- Points Back