For the northern summer season, ITA Airways is expanding its intercontinental destinations with new operations from South America and Japan. During the first half of 2022, the company will take delivery of new Airbus A330 and A350 aircraft to start new services.
Landing in South America
As of June 2, the new Italian airline will land in Sao Paulo – Guarulhos (GRU) and Buenos Aires – Ezeiza (EZE) the two main Latin American markets of Italy, due to the high demand for business, leisure, and VFR (visiting friends and/or family) passengers. This is in addition to cargo traffic. The company already received permits by the authorities of Argentina and Brazil to operate in both nations.
Data obtained by Aviacionline through the Ente Nazionale Per L’Aviazione Civile (ENAC), in 2019 a total of 754,658 and 359,229 passengers were mobilized from Italy to Brazil and Argentina respectively. Both nations are among the main long-haul markets in Italy.
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The first destination in Asia-Pacific
ITA will fly for the first time to Japan starting June 1. They will operate a new route between Rome Fiumicino (FCO) and Tokyo Haneda (HND) five times a week (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday) on A330 aircraft. From August onwards this service will be increased to daily flights.
Flight Itinerary
- Rome Fiumicino (FCO) 15:10 – Tokyo Haneda (HND) 10:35+1
- Tokyo Haneda (HND) 13:35 – Rome Fiumicino (FCO) 19:35
Data obtained by Aviacionline through the Ente Nazionale Per L’Aviazione Civile (ENAC), in 2019 between Italy and Japan 330,403 passengers were mobilized, the Japanese nation is one of the most important Asian markets in Italy due to the strong O&D demand between the two nations derived from business, VFR and leisure passenger traffic, in addition to cargo movement.
