Alitalia and Kenya Airways sign codeshare agreement

Alitalia and Kenya Airways, partner airlines in the SkyTeam alliance, have signed a broad codeshare agreement connecting the networks of the two companies.

This new commercial partnership is bound to boost business travel and tourism between Italy and Kenya, giving tourists and businessmen more travel options and better flight schedules also when travelling to central and southern Africa and to Europe through the two airlines’ hubs in Rome and Nairobi.

The new codeshare flights are available for sale through the airlines’ reservation systems and in travel agencies from 14 March 2019, for travels from 12 June 2019. On this date, in fact, Kenya Airways will inaugurate its four-weekly service between Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi and Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Fiumicino, Rome.

Thanks to the codeshare agreement, Alitalia is widening its network in Africa, where the Italian airline now operates direct services to Johannesburg, Casablanca, Algiers, Tunis and Cairo, by placing its “AZ” flight code on Kenya Airways’ new service between Rome and Nairobi.

Furthermore, Alitalia will apply its ‘AZ’ code also on many services operated by Kenya Airways beyond Nairobi to Mombasa and Kisumu in Kenya, as well as to further 17 destinations in Africa and in the Indian Ocean, such as: Abidjan (Ivory Coast); Accra (Ghana); Addis Ababa (Ethiopia); Antananarivo (Madagascar); Brazzaville (Congo); Dar Es Salaam, Zanzibar (Tanzania); Douala (Cameroon); Johannesburg (South Africa); Kigali (Rwanda); Khartoum (Sudan); Kinshasa and Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo); Lagos (Nigeria); Maputo (Mozambique); Moroni-Hahaya (Comoros); Seychelles.

Similarly, Kenya Airways will expand its offer to Italy and Europe by placing its ‘KQ’ flight code on Alitalia’s services from Rome to 16 Italian domestic destinations (Brindisi, Bologna, Bari, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Lamezia Terme, Milan Malpensa, Naples, Palermo, Pisa, Reggio Calabria, Turin, Trieste, Venice and Verona) and to 11 international destinations (Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Casablanca, Geneva, Larnaca, London Heathrow, Madrid, Malaga, Malta and Paris Charles De Gaulle).

Thanks to the codeshare agreement, customers can fly seamlessly to their desired destination with a single ‘unique’ ticket, checking-in at the airport of departure, and collecting their checked-through baggage at the end of their trip in the arrival airport.

Besides the new codeshare services and more convenient flight connections, Alitalia and Kenya Airways customers will have the opportunity to earn and redeem miles on the entire network operated by both airlines.