The Lufthansa Aviation Group will close 2023 with the highest number of passengers transported in Italy: 3 million travellers. While waiting for the European Competition Commission to conclude the evaluation of the negotiation documents between the Germans and the Italian Government for the privatization of the national airline ITA Airways, the Group is strengthening its fleet with six new planes and is betting on its subsidiary Air Dolomiti, with the aim of expanding across the Peninsula.

"All without changing our business model which aims to bring travelers to the airport hubs". "But it is only after the approval of the European Union that we will be able to address the issues relating to the routes", including the possible role of "feeder" of intercontinental flights by ITA Airways, clarifies the CEO Steffen Harbarth, interviewed by the newspaper "the Corriere della Sera". 

The manager underlines that the possible entry of ITA into the Group will have repercussions on the Air Dolomiti network, but in any case "we will grow regardless of the dossier" being examined in Brussels. "Our function is to connect Italy with Germany and soon with Switzerland. We serve the airports -he added- of Frankfurt and Munich, the two Lufthansa hubs, in particular with Northern Italy. With the additional planes we will be able to increase the frequencies", and start new routes. "We will start connecting Florence and Zurich", which is why "we have a maintenance center in Tuscany".