Berlin – As of December 15, Alitalia will inaugurate new daily service to Berlin and Dusseldorf from Rome Fiumicino, Milan Linate and Venice. Flights to these destinations are already selling. New Alitalia flights to Berlin and Dusseldorf will operate daily during the winter season using Embraer 175 aircraft offering 2 classes of service: “Excellent”- Alitalia’s business class for international routes, and “Classic”, Alitalia’s economy class service. New flights between Italy and Germany have strategic importance for Alitalia. With the introduction of the new flights to Berlin and Dusseldorf in 2015, Alitalia will offer approximately 370,000 more seats, an increase of 66% over 2014. Alitalia currently offers direct flights from Rome to Munich, and Rome and Milan Linate to Frankfurt. Alitalia’s increase of seats offered to Germany during 2014 resulted in 60% more passengers carried over 2013. The new flights will operate in codeshare with Air Berlin, Germany’s 2nd largest airline, in addition to the two carriers’ other 412 weekly codeshare flights between Italy to Germany, Austria and Switzerland. (9colonne)
