Italian state-owned airline ITA Airways says with rising demand for spring 2023, it will add an additional frequency on its Delhi-Rome route, making it four flights a week.

Expecting a bump in demand soon, Italian carrier ITA Airways has decided to add capacity on its routes to India. In a press statement, ITA Airways says it is adding a new frequency on its New Delhi–Rome Fiumicino route in spring 2023. The statement says that tickets for this additional connection are already available for purchase on all ITA Airways’ sales channel, including travel agencies, that are strongly supporting the new intercontinental route.

Launched in early December and currently operating three times a week, the New Delhi–Rome Fiumicino direct flights will increase to four weekly frequencies in the first two weeks of March 2023 and from April through May 2023 to meet the expected demand.

The statement says that from March 1-13 and from April 3 to May 30, the flight will be operated with four weekly frequencies every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday departing from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport at 03:50/03:15 and arriving in Rome Fiumicino at 08:10/08:15.

From March 14-23 and from March 26-April 2, the flight will be thrice a week, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday with the same departure/arrival times.

The airline says that from March 1-12 and from March 27-31, return flights from Rome Fiumicino will be four times a week departing every Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday at 14:10 pm from Rome Fiumicino with arrival in New Delhi the following day at 02:00/01:15. In the period March 13–25 the route will operate three times a week, departing every Monday, Wednesday and Saturday at 14:10 and arriving in New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport at 02:00.

The airline says that the introduction of an additional frequency in the direct connection from New Delhi to Rome is a further strategic contribution to the promotion of economic relations and commercial cooperation between India and Italy. Courtesy of the flight departing from New Delhi to Rome, Indian customers will be able to visit not only Italy but all of Europe, the Mediterranean, South and North America, thanks to the convenient connections offered by ITA Airways’ Rome Fiumicino hub. The Italian flagship carrier is also the only airline to operate a direct Rome Fiumicino–New Delhi flight.

ITA Airways says that it continues to expand its intercontinental network. In the ongoing winter season, the company is serving a total of 51 destinations, of which 9 are intercontinental, including, in addition to New Delhi, the recently launched Tokyo-Haneda and Malé (Maldives) routes. These new long-haul destinations in the Asian market complete the ITA Airways intercontinental network offering flights to New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Miami, Buenos Aires and São Paulo opened earlier this year.