Summer time of travel and flights to plan: here is what the major airlines offer

Up to 15 direct flights a week from Rome Fiumicino airport to Toronto and Montréal. This is the programme of the airline Air Transat. The expansion of the offer responds to a growing demand for travel between Italy and Canada. From 9 June, the Rome-Toronto flight will be daily, while from 29 June, during the summer peak, there will be a double flight on Sundays, making it possible to operate 8 flights a week. Flights between Rome and Montréal will also be daily from 15 June. The expansion of the offer confirms the strategic importance of the Italian market for Air Transat and the company's desire to strengthen its presence in one of the main European gateways to North America.

American Airlines' new direct flight connecting Milan Malpensa to Philadelphia on a daily basis will operate throughout the summer season, until October. Pennsylvania will thus be closer to Italy thanks to direct connections operated by Boeing 787-8 aircraft. The new seasonal flight joins the US carrier's daily and annual connections between Milan and New York. Philadelphia is among other things the main hub for American Airlines' transatlantic flights and guarantees a widespread network of connections to the main destinations in North America and beyond, operating up to 337 daily flights to over 120 destinations in North America, Latin America and the Caribbean this summer.

British Airways adds Rimini and Salerno to its network, as well as an additional service to Olbia, Sardinia. The new entries bring to 19 the number of Italian destinations served by the British carrier in summer. Since May, in fact, new flights to Rimini from London Heathrow and to Salerno, to reach the Amalfi Coast, from London Gatwick have been introduced. A new service from London City to Olbia will instead complement the existing flights departing from Heathrow. According to the company, Italy continues to be a huge success, making it the leading European destination and the second globally after the United States.

For the 15th anniversary of the Milan Malpensa-Hong Kong route, Cathay Pacific has returned to daily flights between the two destinations, consolidating its commitment to Italy. A route that responds to commercial as well as tourist criteria. With the expansion of operational capacity, more travellers and businesses will benefit from greater accessibility between the two countries and new holiday and business opportunities. In summer 2025, the airline will operate up to 96 return flights per week from 12 European cities. This includes the resumption of direct flights from Rome Fiumicino from 5 June 2025, with three-weekly seasonal summer flights departing every Monday, Thursday and Saturday operated with an Airbus A350-900 aircraft.

During the peak summer season, Delta will operate up to 110 weekly flights between Italy and the United States. On 24 May the new flight from Rome to Minneapolis/St. Paul airport was launched, operating four times a week, a flight that adds to the Delta connections already operating from Rome Fiumicino to New York Jfk, Atlanta, Boston and Detroit. Also at the end of May, the new Delta Air Lines flight from Milan to Boston Airport was launched. It is operated four times a week during the summer season and the new connection joins the routes already operating from Milan to New York Jfk and Atlanta. From Venice, the US carrier operates daily flights to New York Jfk (the connection celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2025) and the Atlanta hub. From 11 July, three frequencies will be added to the Venice-Atlanta route. From Naples, on the other hand, a flight to Atlanta was launched with four frequencies a week, and from Catania a new connection to New York Jfk operated daily during the summer.

With its new base in Milan Linate, EasyJet has extended its range of services to 21 routes (Barcelona, Gran Canaria, Birmingham, Brussels, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Figari (Corsica, ), Lisbon, Ibiza, Luxembourg, Manchester, Oslo, Palma de Mallorca, Split, Tenerife and Vienna. From Malpensa, the new routes are Hamburg, Paris Orly, Düsseldorf , Rabat, Evenes-Lofoten (August 2025), Biarritz (June 2025), Thessaloniki (August 2025). Connections to London Gatwick increase to 2 daily. Connections to Amsterdam and Berlin are confirmed with 3 flights per day on both routes. Between Linate and Paris (both Orly and Charles de Gaulle) easyJet now operates up to 4 daily flights, confirming its leadership role in connections between the two cities. Connections from Rome Fiumicino also rise to 16 with five new routes in Europe (Brussels, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Zurich). Finally, from Naples, it is also possible to fly to Fuerteventura and from Palermo to Palma de Mallorca.

New features for summer 2025 include new routes Bogota via Miami and Madagascar via Seychelles, the resumption of daily service to Phnom Penh. For those travelling from Milan, there will be the new refurbished A380s that will operate from 1 July on flights EK091/092 to Milan, already operating from 6 June on flights EK017/018 to Manchester. The introduction of Premium Economy class to Milan represents an important milestone for Italy as Malpensa will become Emirates' second Italian gateway to offer the company's new cabins following the arrival of the A350 in Bologna. With the introduction of the new A380s to Manchester, the airline will expand its Premium Economy offering to almost 5000 seats per week to and from the UK from June. The upgraded service to Manchester is in addition to the four refurbished A380s currently operating on the Dubai-London Heathrow route, Emirates' A350 operating to Edinburgh, and the refurbished Boeing 777 that will enter service from May on the route to London Stansted. These additions will expand the network of international destinations served by Emirates. In July, travellers departing from Milan and Manchester will be able to fly aboard Emirates' four-class A380 and experience its refurbished cabins throughout their journey to major destinations in Australasia and Asia, such as Sydney, Singapore, Osaka, Mumbai, Bangalore and many more.

The German carrier Lufthansa operates over 12,000 weekly connections to more than 300 destinations in over 100 countries. Of particular note are the new intercontinental connections from the main hubs of Frankfurt and Munich to Windhoek, Calgary, Orlando, Halifax and Seattle. New European routes and inaugural flights from its hubs include the following destinations: Bydgoszcz, Ålesund, Kefalonia, Bodø, Edinburgh, Sylt, Burgas, Harstad-Narvik, Niš, Montpellier, Heringsdorf, Calvi and Terceira.

ITA Airways in Summer 2025 will operate 59 destinations, including 16 domestic, 27 international and 16 intercontinental. In addition, for the summer peak, the Company will operate an additional 12 seasonal destinations, including 3 domestic and 9 international. Most of the seasonal destinations will be reachable with direct flights from Rome Fiumicino and Milan Linate, in particular: from Rome Fiumicino and Milan Linate: Rhodes, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Menorca, Heraklion, Corfu, Lampedusa and Pantelleria From Rome Fiumicino to Zante and Cephalonia. In addition, weekly connections between Olbia and Turin will be activated from 26 July to 6 September. The route will be operated on Saturdays, leaving Piedmont at 15:15 and Sardinia at 17:20. Finally, the Milan Linate-Rostock Laage route will be added to these connections. From Reggio Calabria you fly to Nice Important news is also the restoration from 16 February of night connections between Rome Fiumicino and Tel Aviv Ben Gurion with daily frequency. It is worth mentioning that since March, the new Milan Linate-Munich international route has been in force, operating with two daily frequencies from Monday to Friday and only one on Saturday.

Neos, for the summer of 2025, will offer several routes, including international ones, to North America (New York), the Mediterranean (Cairo, Sharm El Sheikh, Marsa Alam and other connections from various Italian airports) and to the Caribbean islands. There will also be domestic routes in Italy, with connections between various cities such as Milan Malpensa Crotone and Bergamo Cagliari. In addition, Neos will also operate scheduled and charter routes to other parts of the world, such as Northern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India and China. Among the international routes: New York (from Bari, Palermo), Canada (Toronto, Montreal), France (Paris, Lyon, Nantes, Marseille), Greece (Thessaloniki, Heraklion), Thailand with Phuket (from Milan and Rome).

There are 156 routes covered by Ryanair from Milan airports (Bergamo and Malpensa). During the summer months, Ryanair is also expanding some Italian airports. From Pescara it will be possible to fly to and from Milan Malpensa and Cagliari with a new flight, while foreign destinations include Valencia, Kaunas, Lithuania's second city, ideal for those looking for a cooler summer destination and who love art and design, and Wroclaw, one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in Poland. From the airports in Calabria one can reach Bucharest, Madrid and Düsseldorf, while in Italy Trieste. With regard to departures and arrivals at Trapani airport, the airline has confirmed the continuation of some existing routes, such as those to Bergamo, Bologna, Rome, Milan Malpensa, Pisa, Venice and Turin, to which is added the flight to Bratislava. Finally, among the novelties are the routes from Trieste airport to Rotterdam, Stockholm and Prague

If North America confirms itself as the first intercontinental market for Venice Marco Polo airport, with flows that in 2025 will exceed 1.2 million passengers overall, there is an important novelty that links the Arab world to the Veneto airport: in the summer period flights to Jeddah and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia will be active, operated from mid-June to the end of August by the Saudia company. These will be joined by the twice-weekly connection to Larnaca by Cyprus Airways, from 30 May to 29 September.

United Airlines has launched its first direct flight between Rome Fiumicino Airport and its hub at Denver International Airport. The seasonal service will operate on a daily basis. United is the first and only airline to operate a direct flight between Rome and Denver and will offer over 17 per cent more seats from Rome during the 2025 summer peak, with seven daily flights to the US. The new seasonal service between Rome and Denver joins United's existing services from Italy to the United States: year-round daily services from Rome and Milan to New York/Newark, year-round services from Rome to Washington Dulles, as well as seasonal flights from Rome to Chicago O'Hare and San Francisco, Milan to Chicago O'Hare, Naples to New York/Newark and Venice to New York/Newark, which will operate for an extended season until 18 December 2025, almost two months longer than in 2024. The airline has also launched new seasonal routes from Venice to Washington D.C. and from Palermo to New York/Newark. United will operate up to 14 direct flights per day from Italy to the US for summer 2025.

Vietnam Airlines' new non-stop Milan Malpensa-Hanoi flight will be launched on 1 July, in response to a growing tourist interest in the Far East country and more generally in South-East Asia. Three flights a week are scheduled every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, operated by a Boeing 787 configured in the three classes business, premium economy and economy. The aim is to increase to five weekly frequencies in the near future and then to seven at a later stage. According to the airline there would also be room for a direct flight between Milan and Ho Chi Minh City. To facilitate passengers who do not fly from Milan, the airline has agreements with Ita Airways, Air France and British Airways.

In the summer season Vueling in Italy will offer a total of 33 routes from 15 domestic airports (the hubs of Rome Fiumicino and Florence in primis, but also Bologna, Bari, Cagliari, Catania, Genoa, Milan Malpensa, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Turin, Venice, Salerno and Rimini) to 13 European destinations (Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, Valencia, Malaga, Ibiza, London, Paris, Dubrovnik, Split, Mykonos, Santorini and Brussels). At domestic level, moreover, Vueling connects Florence airport with Catania airport. Amongst the novelties is the Florence-Brussels route from 1 April 2025, with three weekly flights (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday), becoming the first and only low-cost company to operate this route. Furthermore, the Spanish company has launched two new routes departing from Salerno and not served by other carriers: to Paris Orly, operating from 20 June to 24 October with three weekly flights (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and to Barcelona, from 3 July to 25 October with three weekly flights (Monday, Thursday and Saturday). The same applies to the Barcelona-Rimini route, for flights from 2 July to 22 October, on Wednesdays and Sundays.

In view of the high demand for the summer season, Wizz Air is strengthening its summer schedule by significantly reinforcing its network of connections to and from Italy. At Milan Malpensa - one of the company's five Italian bases - the summer offer is enriched with increased flights to the main leisure destinations and European cities: Paris Beauvais, Barcelona, Heraklion and Madrid, Lampedusa, Chisinau, Larnaca, Keflavík, Sharm El-Sheikh and Tel Aviv. The network of connections for the summer also includes more popular routes such as Spain, the Greek islands, North Africa and the Middle East. Domestic flights to Sicily and Sardinia remain active, with direct connections to Catania and Olbia. With more than 200 routes operated from Italy to around 80 destinations in 30 countries, Wizz Air is offering more than 13 million low-cost seats this summer season. From Milan Malpensa alone, 50 routes to 25 countries will be operated.