Nine Italian cities will have new direct flights between Italy and destinations in the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe in the coming months.
Travellers in Italy will have dozens of new flight options in the coming months as airlines add routes to their fall and winter schedule.
This season will see the first direct Ita Airways flight to the Caribbean, and new and returning seasonal routes to beach destinations like Mauritius, the Maldives and Egypt’s Red Sea coast.
Plus, a new Spanish budget airline is connecting Milan and Venice to Galicia, while Sicily is getting several new direct flights to the rest of Europe through Wizz Air and Ryanair.
Here’s a list of the new flights to and from Italy announced for the autumn-winter season 2026 so far.
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Rome
A new EasyJet route connects Rome to the capital of Northern Ireland with a direct twice-weekly flight.
- Belfast, Ireland – Mondays and Fridays, from October 26th, running now
ITA Airways is expanding its international offerings this winter, including its first-ever Caribbean route.
The airline will again operate seasonal direct flights to the island of Mauritius, off the east coast of Madagascar, starting in late October.
- Mauritius – Multiple days per week, from October 25th, running now
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ITA’s first Caribbean route debuts this winter with a seasonal direct flight from Rome to the Dominican Republic. Flights will operate until early next spring.
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic – on Mondays from November 30th until mid-December, then Mondays and Sundays through March 2027
Travellers seeking a tropical vacation can also turn to the Maldives with the return of ITA’s seasonal direct flight from Rome to the capital city of Malé. The route will begin in December and operate until early April next year.
- Maldives – Days vary throughout the season, from December through April 5th 2027
Starting in December, Cyprus Airways will begin operating a direct flight between Rome and Larnaca. Currently only Wizz Air operates a direct flight between the two cities.
- Larnaca, Cyprus – Mondays and Fridays, from December 11th
Northern Italy
A new low-cost Spanish airline – Fly2Galicia – is launching this December, connecting Spain’s northwest Galicia region with several European destinations, including Venice (Wednesdays and Saturdays) and Milan Malpensa (Tuesdays and Fridays).
- Santiago de Compostela, Spain – from December 1st
Budget airline Ryanair is running several new flight routes from the Milan area this winter in what executives called the company’s largest-ever winter schedule for the northern Italian city.
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New routes flying out of Milan Malpensa (MXP) started in mid-to-late October and include the following.
- Edinburgh, Scotland – Fridays and Sundays, running now
- Funchal, Madeira (Portugal) – Tuesdays and Thursdays, running now
- Gdańsk, Poland – four flights weekly, from October 25th, running now
- Agadir, Morocco – Wednesdays and Saturdays, from October 28th, running now
Additional Ryanair winter routes have also arrived to Milan Bergamo (BGY).
- Rabat, Morocco – Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, running now
- Liverpool, England – Fridays and Sundays, from October 25th, running now
- Paphos, Cyprus – Thursdays and Sundays, from October 25th, running now
Bologna
Bluebird Airways has begun operating three weekly flights between Tel Aviv and Bologna. Currently, non-stop flights between the two cities are limited to one seasonal route.
- Tel Aviv, Israel – Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from September 2nd, running now
Pisa
The low-cost Spanish airline Volotea is operating twice-weekly flights between Tuscany and the southern French city of Toulouse this winter.
- Toulouse, France – Mondays and Fridays, from November 6th
And a summer service from Pisa to Rabat, operated by Ryanair, has been extended through the winter.
- Rabat, Morocco – Mondays and Fridays, ongoing through March
Palermo
As part of a larger Sicily expansion, Ryanair has added a number of new winter flights between Palermo and Europe.
- Dublin, Ireland – Mondays and Thursdays, running now
- Gdańsk, Poland – Mondays and Thursdays, running now
- Prague, Czechia – four flights weekly, running now
- Tirana, Albania – Fridays and Sundays, from October 25th, running now
- Sofia, Bulgaria – Tuesdays and Saturdays, from October 27th, running now
Catania
Wizz Air is also expanding its connections between Sicily and the Iberian Peninsula this autumn and early winter.
- Porto, Portugal – Tuesdays and Saturdays, from October 27th, running now
- Valencia, Spain – Multiple days per week, from December 14th
- Alicante, Spain – Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, from December 15th
Ryanair’s new seasonal flight routes to Catania connect eastern Sicily to a variety of European destinations.
- Alicante, Spain – five flights weekly, from October 25th, running now
- Valencia, Spain – flights daily, from October 25th, running now
- Warsaw, Poland – six flights weekly, from October 25th, running now
- Gdańsk, Poland – Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays, from October 26th, running now
- Memmingen, Germany – Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays, from October 26th, running now
- Porto, Portugal – five flights weekly, from October 26th, running now
Naples
Wizz Air will initiate a direct flight between Naples and the Red Sea resort town of Hurghada this December.
- Hurghada, Egypt – Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays, from December 2nd
Salerno
Iberia Airlines will begin daily flights between Madrid and the Salerno-Costa d’Amalfi airport in November.
- Madrid, Spain – Daily, from November 1st
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