Royal Jordanian and Alitalia's new frequent flyer deal

If you are a frequent flyer member of the Royal Jordanian or Alitalia airlines you can now earn air miles when you fly on certain routes with the other airline because of a new codeshare agreement.

Royal Jordanian (based in Jordan) and Alitalia (based in Italy) have begun their new codeshare this month. It means Royal Jordanian can fly their planes on Alitalia’s daily Amman-Rome service, which will resume on March 26, 2017, and on the Italian airline’s connections from Rome to the following 16 domestic destinations: Ancona, Brindisi, Bologna, Bari, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Pisa, Reggio Calabria, Lamezia Terme, Turin, Trieste, Verona and Venice. Similarly, the agreement allows Alitalia to provides flights on Royal Jordanian’s five weekly flights between Rome and Amman and beyond to Aqaba and Larnaca in Cyprus.

The code share agreement gives frequent flyers on those airlines more travel options. Besides the new codeshare services and more convenient flight connections, RJ’s Royal Plus frequent flyer program members can earn miles when they fly on a code share flight operated by Alitalia. Also, Alitalia’s MilleMiglia frequent flyer members have the opportunity to earn miles when travelling on codeshare flights operated by Royal Jordanian.

Alitalia's Business Class on medium haul flights (pictured below)

There are 15 codeshare agreements between RJ and other airlines: American Airlines, Air Berlin, British Airways, Iberia, Siberia Airlines, Malaysia Airlines, Sri Lankan Airlines, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, Oman Air, Middle East Airlines, Tarom, Gulf Air, Syrian Air and Meridiana Fly Airlines.

RJ is a member of the Oneworld alliance. Alitalia is a member of the SkyTeam network.

In addition, Royal Jordanian (RJ) will be increasing the frequency of its flights to 14 destinations on its route network this summer. The 2017 summer operating plan will add an additional weekly flight to the already scheduled services to Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Madrid, Moscow, Riyadh, Tunis and Algiers, and two additional weekly flights to New York, Kuwait and Dammam. Furthermore, RJ will add three additional weekly flights to Medina, bringing the total number of weekly flights into the city to 16. Moreover, RJ will be operating a total of 15 weekly flights to Baghdad by adding six additional weekly trips to the existing schedule.