{"id":16054,"date":"2023-07-09T17:51:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T16:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/?p=16054"},"modified":"2023-07-09T17:51:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T16:51:45","slug":"my-ita-volare-executive-card-finally-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2023\/07\/09\/my-ita-volare-executive-card-finally-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"My ITA Volare Executive card finally arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ITA Airways is the Italian national carrier that was reborn a couple of years ago after its former entity Alitalia dissolved. They ran a status match campaign which, in theory, would give you Skyteam status right away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My British Airways Gold status matched to their top tier Executive (Skyteam Elite Plus). In March 2022 ITA sent me an email reminding me of updating my address, because a surprise was waiting for me. Well one year and four months later the wait is finally over&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-1.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16051\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-1-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16052\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-3.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16053\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-3.png 800w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-3-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/07\/ita-volare-card-3-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>To give them some credit, very few airlines or hotel groups nowadays still mail physical membership cards. It&#8217;s thoughtful of them to include a gift box as well, instead of just attaching the card to a letter. Although frankly it is not nearly as nice as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/2021\/02\/12\/a-surprising-giftbox-from-starlux-airlines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"A Surprising Giftbox from Starlux Airlines\">what Starlux sent me<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year ITA Volare decided to extend all membership status to January 2024. Then in May Lufthansa agreed to buy 41% stake at ITA Airways &#8211; it seems very likely that ITA Airways will leave Skyteam to join Star Alliance soon, and let&#8217;s hope that means another status extension&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITA Airways is the Italian national carrier that was reborn a couple of years ago after its former entity Alitalia dissolved. They ran a status match&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ita-airways"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16054"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16056,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16054\/revisions\/16056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verylvke.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}