Please note: departure and arrival times are expressed according to the corresponding country’s local time.
British Airways
UK flag carrier British Airways will open up three new direct routes to Italy this year.
The airline will launch a new route connecting London Heathrow with Rimini Federico Fellini Airport on May 15th.
Flights in both directions will operate three times a week (Monday, Tuesday and Saturday) until September 27th.
British Airways subsidiary BA EuroFlyer will operate three direct weekly services (Monday, Thursday and Saturday) between London Gatwick and Salerno from May 22nd to October 25th.
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Finally, British Airways’ London City-based subsidiary BA CityFlyer will launch a new direct route to Olbia, Sardinia, starting from May 25th.
BA Cityflyer will offer one weekly service from May 25th to July 16th, and then one with twice-weekly frequency (Wednesday and Saturday) from July 16th until September 28th.
EasyJet
British budget airline EasyJet will inaugurate two new Italian bases – one at Milan Linate and the other at Rome Fiumicino – on March 30th.
This will translate to 16 new direct links with Linate (including three UK-Italy routes) and five new links with Rome Fiumicino, according to the carrier:
Milan Linate: Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh, Brussels, Frankfurt, Vienna, Barcelona, Lisbon, Copenaghen, Figari (Corsica), Ibiza, Maiorca, Tenerife, Oslo, Split (Croatia) and Luxembourg.
Rome Fiumicino: Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Zurich and Brussels.
Services to and from Manchester and Edinburgh will have daily frequency, whereas flights to and from Birmingham will run twice a week (Monday and Friday).
EasyJet will also operate three new routes to Milan Malpensa starting from March 30th: Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Evenes-Lofoten, Norway.
In mid-April, the airline will launch twice-weekly flights (Wednesday and Sunday) between London Gatwick and Rimini. The new service is set to start on April 16th and end on October 22nd.
Finally, the carrier will offer two new weekly flights (Thursday and Sunday) between Edinburgh and Olbia, Sardinia, from May 1st, and three weekly flights (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) between Lyon and Bari, Puglia, from May 23rd.
American Airlines
American Airlines will offer daily direct flights from Chicago O’Hare to Naples from May 6th to October 24th.
Flights are scheduled to leave O’Hare at 8.30pm every day and arrive in Naples at 1pm the next day.
American Airlines has also announced it will operate new daily direct flights between Philadelphia and Milan Malpensa from May 23rd until October 24th.
Italy-bound flights will depart from Philadelphia at 9.25pm, reaching Milan at 11.20am the next day. Flights in the other direction will leave Milan at 1.20pm, arriving in Philadelphia at 4.25pm.
Delta Air Lines
Atlanta-headquartered Delta Air Lines will open up four new direct routes to Italy this year for its largest-ever transatlantic summer schedule.
On May 21st, the airline will launch daily direct flights from New York JFK to Catania – the first direct route from the US to the Sicilian city.
Flights will depart from JFK at 5.25pm and arrive in Catania at 8.35am the next day. The service will run until October 24th.
Delta Air Lines will operate three other routes to and from Italy from May 23rd to October 24th.
Minneapolis-Rome and Boston-Milan Malpensa services will run four times a week, flying to Italy on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and to the US on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Atlanta-to-Naples services will run on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, whereas Naples-to-Atlanta flights will run on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
United Airlines
United Airlines will launch the first-ever direct route between Denver International Airport and Rome Fiumicino Airport from May 2nd, with the airline operating daily services in both directions until September 25th.
Flights from Denver will depart at 5.50pm and arrive in Rome at 12.20pm the following day, whereas services from Rome will depart at 2.20pm, arriving in Denver at 5.45pm.
The airline will also launch three weekly services between Newark and Palermo from May 21st (on Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and daily direct flights between Washington and Venice from May 23rd.
Air Canada
Canada’s flag carrier Air Canada will open up a new direct route connecting Montreal with Naples from May 16th to October 17th.
The carrier said it will operate four weekly flights in each direction: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday to Naples; Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday to Montreal.
Naples-bound services will depart from Montreal at 7.15pm, arriving in Campania’s capital at 9.30am the next day.
Montreal-bound flights will leave Naples at 11.40am and arrive in Montreal at 2.50pm local time.
ITA Airways
Italy’s flag carrier ITA Airways will launch new direct flights connecting Munich, Germany, with Milan Linate from March 30th.
The airline will offer two daily flights in each direction from Monday to Friday, with departures from Linate at 7.30am and 5.30pm, and departures from Munich at 9.35am and 7.35pm.
Frequency will drop to one daily flight in either direction on Saturdays and Sundays.
Ryanair
Irish budget airline Ryanair will connect Trieste with Prague, Czech Republic, and Lamezia Terme, Calabria, with two weekly flights from March 30th.
Though the exact date hasn’t been announced yet, the carrier will also operate new flights between Paris Orly and Bergamo.
Volotea
Spanish budget airline Volotea will offer new direct flights from Paris Orly to Verona from March 27th; to Turin from March 30th; and to Alghero, Sardinia, from March 31st.
The carrier will also launch two weekly flights between Palermo and Bilbao, Spain, from April 12th.
WizzAir
Hungarian airline WizzAir will open up a new direct route connecting Genoa with Poland’s capital, Warsaw, from May 1st.
The carrier will offer three weekly flights in each direction.
Aeroitalia
As of March 23rd, Italian airline Aeroitalia offers two weekly flights (on Thursday and Sunday) between Rome Fiumicino and Brno, Czech Republic.
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