ITA Airways & Skyteam, something is starting to move
The day after the MEF announced the start of exclusive negotiations on the sale of the majority stake in ITA Airways [...]
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Day after MEF announcement to start exclusive negotiations On the sale of the majority stake in ITA Airways. to the Certares investment fund, supported by Air France and KLM, Skyteam situation seems to have begun to unblock.
On the Facebook group dedicated to Platinum status holders in Flying Blue, one member announced that today, September 1, 2022, he was granted entry In the ITA Airways lounge in terminal 1 Fiumicino airport with an Air France economy ticket.
Platinum status corresponds to Elite Plus status for the Skyteam alliance and guarantees benefits such as priority boarding, extra baggage, and lounge entry for all alliance airlines. In the Volare loyalty program of ITA Airways the level Elite Plus corresponds to premium status or higher.
From the day of its inception ITA Airways had joined the Skyteam alliance, but without coming Never truly integrated into the systems of the various companies. Impossible to access lounges, except in rare cases, with Volare status and equally impossible with Skyteam Elite Plus status to access ITA Airways' three lounges.
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Today something seems to have changed, now all that remains to be seen is whether the change is only ITA's or whether it will be reciprocal and most importantly, whether it will be possible to accumulate Volare points when traveling with other alliance carriers and vice versa.
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