ITA adds new Rome and Milan flights to London City Airport

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• Stuart says:

  15 Dec15 December 05:26

  Rhys, the ITA Airways article incorrectly says for flight AZ213 LCY to LCY instead of LCY to FCO.

  • Gordon says:

    15 Dec15 December 06:03

    Could have had a turn around?

• NFH says:

  15 Dec15 December 07:50

  ITA Airways’ predecessor Alitalia used to fly between LCY and FCO around 2014. I live near LCY and I’ve recently heard ITA Airways’ Airbus A220 aircraft, presumably for this route, making an annoying howling noise on their final approach, just as those of Swiss do.

  • NFH says:

    15 Dec15 December 08:49

    I’m two miles from LCY but in the flight path. The only noise disturbance is howling from the increasing number of Airbus A220 and occasional go-arounds. The reason that go-arounds are so noisy is that there is a sudden abnormal amount of thrust at low altitude, but this attracts my attention and they are interesting to watch.

    Fortunately there are no more BAe 146 / Avro RJ, which were much noisier than the other aircraft at LCY.

• HampshireHog says:

  15 Dec15 December 07:58

  In more exciting news DanAir launching flights from Liverpool according to an email from the airport yesterday! I remember the roar of their Comets and cycling to their maintenance base at Lasham when I was a pup

  • daveinitalia says:

    15 Dec15 December 10:09

    This Dan Air is a Romanian company. The original one was bought by BA for £1 (a lot of money back then) in 1992.

    Apparently this Dan Air had planned to start flying to Israel in November, so it’s a bit like bmi, when they announced a route to the middle east a war tended to break out.

    • Hampshirehog says:

      15 Dec15 December 19:37

      Yes but we can dream of an era of proudly boarding kites as British and successful as the Austin allegro my Dad had to fly and flop in Lloret

• daveinitalia says:

  15 Dec15 December 08:53

  ITA are currently operating their first A321neo between FCO and LHR. It’s a 3 class configuration with low flat business, premium economy and economy. This is a contrast to BA whose A321neos have the worst shorthaul config of their fleet with no middle seat tables and the uncomfortable thin seats starting before the exit rows.

  The first A321neo was supposed to operate FCO-TLV but due to current events they had to put it on a different route and LHR got it for now.

  It would be an interesting one for HfP to review and also find out what the plan for this aircraft is once more arrive.

  BA no longer have the midhaul config A321ceos inherited from bmi, they were all converted to short haul meaning places like AMM and CAI now get an uncomfortable aircraft for such a long flight.

  Other ITA news, it looks like my matched ITA status expires next month so it’ll be interesting to see if there’s a soft landing or even a further extension. I also have an option to gift premium status in the app so maybe I should gift that to someone before my status expires. Premium is the tier below executive but in SkyTeam terms is also Elite Plus and includes lounge access

  • yonasl says:

    15 Dec15 December 08:59

    Me me me please. ✋ haha!

    Thanks so much

    • daveinitalia says:

      15 Dec15 December 10:03

      Unfortunately I know someone with some ITA flights coming up that could probably use that status. But there’s many people here status matched to ITA and those who were BA gold matched to the executive level on ITA so perhaps it’s worth starting a thread on the forum to match people who have ITA status with those who would appreciate it gifting

  • Rhys says:

    15 Dec15 December 09:10

    It’s on our radar.

    • daveinitalia says:

      15 Dec15 December 10:01

      Hope you enjoy it. If it’s still running in January I’ll give it a go

• jjoohhnn says:

  15 Dec15 December 09:13

  Where did Virgin get the slots from for these new flights?

  • Rhys says:

    15 Dec15 December 12:47

    Sao Paulo has been pushed back a year and Austin cancelled, so perhaps those.

    • Dev says:

      15 Dec15 December 13:49

      So in all likelihood, it’s a temporary increase in flights to NY and Boston whilst they figure out if they want to start anything else.

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      15 Dec15 December 14:35

      Or one of the slots taken away by the most recent review of the AA/BA joint venue

      IIRC they had a LHR-BOS taken away for another airline to use on that specific route

      • jjoohhnn says:

        15 Dec15 December 14:51

        JetBlue would have been chomping at the bit for it of course..

• PeteM says:

  15 Dec15 December 10:42

  I flew ITA from Linate to LCY in May, operated by German Airways. The CSM was in jeans and a polo and it was one of the most chilled flights I’ve ever been on 🤣

• Duck Ling says:

  15 Dec15 December 12:09

  Well at least we found out what they are doing with the aircraft that would have been scheduled for the ‘postponed’ LHR-GRU. More tried and trusty trans atlantic flying.

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