American Airlines is going even bigger on Italy next summer.
Weeks after announcing a handful of new transatlantic routes for 2025, the Dallas-based airline on Friday unveiled a few more additions – this time, squarely focused on giving travelers more nonstop flights to Italy.
The new flights aren't available just yet – they're all expected to go on sale on Monday, Nov. 4.
Both routes will run seasonally through the summer and into early fall. Neither are brand-new destinations for American Airlines flyers: The airline flies nonstop to Naples from its hub in Philadelphia (PHL) as well as between Chicago and Venice.
Still, these new routes from two of its biggests hubs open up more options for travelers all over the U.S. to take easy, nonstop (or one-stop) flights to Italy next year.
“As Italy continues to remain popular for summertime travel, American is making it easier than ever for customers to shop, dine or unwind in their favorite destinations,” Brian Znotins, the airline's senior vice president of network and schedule planning, said in a statement.
Plus, American is beefing up existing routes while starting other new additions even earlier than anticipated.
The airline's new route connecting Miami (MIA) and Rome (FCO) will kick off in early June instead of July, as previously announced. American is also airline is also adding a second daily frequency from Philadelphia to Rome over the summer months.
U.S. travelers are heading over to Europe in record numbers – and few countries are more popular than Italy. Airlines are responding by adding more and more nonstop flights.
Delta's summer 2025 plans call for resurrecting nonstop flights from Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) to Rome (FCO); adding flights from Boston (BOS) to Milan (MXP) and Atlanta (ATL) to Naples (NAP); and becoming the first U.S. airline to fly nonstop to Sicily with a route from New York City (JFK) to Catania (CTA).
On the other side of the southern Italian isle, United will add nonstops to Palermo (PMO) from Newark (EWR) as part of its own major route expansion. United is also adding a route from Washington, D.C.-Dulles (IAD) to Venice next spring.
Add it all up, and U.S. airlines are already scheduled to fly 60% more seats over to Italy next summer than they did in the summer of 2019, according to data from the aviation analytics firm Cirium.
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