The Italian carrier is also in the process of joining the Star Alliance network as a full member expected in early 2026

Air Canada and ITA Airways today announced a significant milestone in their partnership with a code-share agreement that provides customers more convenient travel options when flying between two countries, and beyond. 

Under the agreement, the Canadian airline will place its AC code on select routes operated by ITA Airways from Rome-Fiumicino. These include five destinations in Italy: Lamezia Terme, Palermo, Catania, Florence and Bari; three points in Africa, including Cairo, Tunis and Algiers (subject to governmental approval); as well as Tirana and Tel Aviv (the latter temporarily suspended). ITA Airways will place its AZ code on selected routes operated by Air Canada from Toronto-Pearson, these include: Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and St. John’s; and selected services from Canada to the United States: Boston, Orlando, Dallas, and Fort Lauderdale. 

The Italian carrier also in the process of joining the Star Alliance network as a full member, with work underway to facilitate full membership expected in early 2026. 

This partnership complements Air Canada’s growing network to Italy. This Summer, the airline will operate up to 39 weekly flights and over 13,000 weekly seats to Italy. In May, it launched a new route between Montreal and Naples, the gateway to the Amalfi coast. Naples is the carrier’s fourth non-stop connection between Canada and Italy in addition to Rome, Milan, and Venice. As well, Air Canada offers intermodal rail connections with Trenitalia, the largest train operator in Italy, with high-speed, regional, overnight and international train routes. Through these intermodal connections, customers will be able to travel to up to 30 onward destinations within Italy. 

In the current Summer season, ITA Airways operates a total of 59 destinations, including 16 intercontinental, 27 international and 16 domestic routes. During the Summer peak, the airline flies to 12 additional seasonal ones in the Mediterranean—3 domestic and 9 international—from Rome-Fiumicino and Milan-Linate. These seasonal destinations include the Balearic Islands (Ibiza, Majorca, Menorca), several Greek islands (Rhodes, Heraklion, Corfu, Zakynthos, Kefalonia), as well as the Italian islands of Lampedusa and Pantelleria. Furthermore, in addition to seasonal routes, the carrier has recently enhanced its offering to passengers, providing them with connections to over 100 additional destinations—both across Europe and on intercontinental routes—through code-share agreements with five Lufthansa Group carriers: Lufthansa, SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, and Air Dolomiti.