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ITA Airways launches “ITA Airways Connect” the website for travel agents

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  • A welcome initiative dedicated to ITA Airways Connect members available until 30 June 2022
  • The new Italian flag carrier gets 2022 off to the best of starts in terms of punctuality and regularity rates

ITA Airways introduces ITA Airways Connect, the new Community on digital platform dedicated to travel agents. Courtesy of ITA Airways Connect, all travel agents will be able to access commercial information about the Company products, services and operational procedures and receive support and useful tips to meet their customers’ requests. Moreover, through the Community, travel agents will also be able to check real-time flight status information, issue ITA Airways tickets and discover Smart Group, the easy-to-use platform that ensures eligible agents real-time fare quotations and speeds up the process of group booking. The Community also provides agents with an easy way to get in touch with the Company for updates on policies and procedures, as well as for dedicated assistance.

Furthermore, travel agents will have the opportunity to sign up for a dedicated newsletter to receive communications on operational updates and commercial initiatives.

For the launch of the Community, the Company invites travel agents to take a break and travel with the new, dedicated fares available for the members of ITA Airways Connect. The offer allows agents to travel with one companion to all ITA Airways domestic, international, and intercontinental destinations at a very special rate. This initiative, available until 30 June 2022 (last date of return), will also allow agents to learn more about ITA Airways products and become ‘Ambassadors’ of the Company at the same time.

To enjoy the offer and book their flight, agents need to register on the ITA Airways Connect. Reservation and ticketing must be made exclusively through dedicated numbers of the local ITA Airways Contact Center.

Full information on the offer dedicated to travel agents is available on the ITA Airways Connect website.

Thanks to this initiative, ITA Airways continues its strategy of strengthening contact with travel agents to guarantee all the necessary support for their business.

ITA Airways gets 2022 off to the “best of starts” in terms of punctuality and regularity rates

With 96.1% of flights landing on time and a rating of 99.6% in terms of the regularity of its entire operations, ITA Airways was the first most on-time airline in Europe and the first for flight regularity in the world in January. These rankings were certified by FlightStats, the authoritative independent US company that every month ranks all airlines based on these indicators.

ITA Airways started its flight operations on 15 October 2021 and in less than 100 days since launch it has immediately placed itself at the top of the punctuality and regularity rate charts, delivering a service that met with customer satisfaction. These extremely satisfying results were obtained courtesy of the professionalism and dedication of all ITA Airways employees, who are constantly listening to the opinions of all customers and put their wellbeing at the center of the business.

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How to use the ITA Matrix to find cheap flights

Victoria M. Walker

If you're always on the hunt for cheap flights, you're likely familiar with using Google Flights , Skyscanner or online travel agencies (OTAs) like Expedia. We're big fans of those platforms here at TPG, as they can save you a ton of money on flights.

But the most powerful tool of all is a little less known and a lot less sleek: the ITA Matrix , which is also powered by Google. This platform requires a bit more work to score cheap flights (more on that below), but if you know how to make ITA Matrix work for you, it can pay off.

Here's everything you need to know about the ITA Matrix.

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What is the ITA Matrix?

ITA Matrix is a powerful tool that allows you to search for flights -- though keep in mind that you can't actually book flights on the platform. For that, you'll need to go to the individual airline's website. You'll find many flights, though Google says each airline decides how much to participate.

Pros of the ITA Matrix

Most OTAs let you search for only specific travel dates. For instance, on Expedia you're locked into searching one date at a time.

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The ITA Matrix allows you to select options like a day before, after, or plus/minus 1- 2 days. That little extra flexibility gets you to a ticket faster and could save you money if traveling on another day is cheaper.

Cons of the ITA Matrix

One of the biggest downsides to using the ITA Matrix is that while you can search for flights, you can't actually book them through the platform. You can provide the information you find to a travel agent or airline when booking a flight, or you can try to recreate the itinerary through the airline or OTA yourself.

How to use the ITA Matrix to search for flights

There are a lot of filters, but finding flights using ITA Matrix is pretty straightforward. You will enter your departure and arrival airports as you would through an OTA. You can search one-way, round-trip or multi-city itineraries.

Routing codes

To get the most out of ITA Matrix, you'll probably need to use routing codes. Google has a helpful FAQ sheet on understanding the codes, which at first glance can seem pretty complicated. I'll do a breakdown of how to use these later on, but using the codes, you can:

  • Include only flights operated by specific airlines or alliances
  • Specify the number of connections you are willing to make (e.g., nonstop flights only, or one connection only)
  • Search for flights with a layover in a specific airport, or avoiding a particular airport (e.g., avoiding a connection through Los Angeles (LAX) on a Delta flight from Las Vegas to Tokyo )
  • Limit the duration of an itinerary
  • Exclude red-eye flights or flights with overnight stops

Related: Coronavirus cancellations: What to do if you've booked travel through an online travel agency (OTA)

Cost per mile filter

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You can see mileage and price per mile when you hover over your preferred fare in the search results. On the search results page, click the price heading and click "show price per mile." This is a neat feature to use if you're booking a mileage run where you'd need a certain amount of qualifying miles to get or keep elite status.

Geo-Search filter

The Geo-Search filter lets you search by airport code, city, or nearby airport. This feature could be helpful if you live in an area served by several airports, like New York, and you want to avoid flying out of Newark, for instance.

Color-coded Time Bars

We'll talk more about the Time Bars below, but this option allows you to compare flights at a glance. It's helpful if you don't want to scroll through pages and pages of flights. It's also an easier way to see how long your connections will be if you aren't flying nonstop.

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How to book flights using ITA Matrix

I'm going to walk you through finding a flight through the ITA Matrix to illustrate how all this works. I'll be searching for a one-way flight from New York (JFK) to Portland (PDX) for dates in June 2021.

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In the dates section, you'll see an option to search by exact dates or view a calendar. The calendar feature could be helpful if your travel plans are flexible and you just want to find the cheapest fares. You can also search for flights by time if you prefer a red-eye or midday flight.

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You can then pick what cabin you prefer, whether you want a nonstop flight and the currency you want the fare to price out in.

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We'll talk a bit later about more advanced ways to search for flights, but after you hit "search," you'll see a page with your results. It's pretty self-explanatory, but I want to highlight the circle indicators on the right-hand side of the page under "advisory."

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The advisory column shows you features you may want to avoid, like airport changes, long layovers and short connections that could be risky.

If you want a more visual overview of the flight options, make sure you hit "Time Bar."

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After selecting your preferred flight, you'll see a detailed description, including the aircraft, fare class, whether you'll get a meal in-flight and whether there is onboard entertainment. Keep in mind that the aircraft could change before your flight.

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Finally, you'll see the cost breakdown of the flight, the fare construction (you'll send this to your travel agent) and a Powertools section to book your flight through another platform. I'll talk more about this below. There is also a way to email the itinerary if you need to send it to a travel agent.

Can I book a flight with ITA Matrix?

As I said above, you can't book flights directly through the program. You do have some options for recreating your itinerary, however. You can use BookWithMatrix to generate a booking link from your ITA Matrix result.

All you have to do is paste your itinerary into the box and you'll see results. Let's say you want to fly from Newark (EWR ) to San Francisco (SFO) one-way. You want to fly United Airlines only, you don't mind a connection but you don't want to connect in Chicago (ORD) .

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After the results page populates, you'll pick your preferred itinerary by selecting it. After you do that, you'll select the entire page and then paste it into BookWithMatrix.

You'll then see the itinerary on BookWithMatrix and a link to book the flight. If you don't want to go through all of those steps, you can use ITA Matrix's Powertools feature on the left-hand side of the page to book directly.

Can I search for hotels with ITA Matrix?

You can't search for hotels using the ITA Matrix. If you're trying to find a hotel for your trip, you're better off using a platform like Orbitz or Priceline or booking directly through your hotel chain to earn points on your stay.

Related: Online travel agency vs. booking direct: Your guide to the best way to book your next hotel

Can I book car rentals with ITA Matrix?

As with hotels, you can't search for or book rental cars using ITA Matrix. You can find rental cars through your preferred OTA or by booking directly through your preferred company. Make sure you're using a credit card that offers primary insurance for car rentals .

Related: 9 rental car rewards programs you need to know about

Can I use ITA to find a specific fare class or code?

You can use the Matrix to search for a preferred fare class. Let's say you want to fly from Atlanta (ATL) to Los Angeles (LAX) but you don't want to fly economy to get there. Here, you would use another tool ITA Matrix has called extension codes.

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Using extension codes, you can filter out fare classes you don't want to be in or search only for first, business or economy fares. In this case, I used the extension code "+CABIN 1," which indicated I only wanted to fly first class.

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What are ITA Matrix advanced codes?

ITA Matrix includes several powerful ways to search for a specific ticket, where conventional search tools only differentiate on price. In the advanced routing fields, you can input endless commands to find your perfect flight. There are three tabs (you can open the legend by clicking on the first "question mark" that will help you find the right code to put into ITA Matrix.

If you're looking for a specific flight on a particular carrier, you can search that way. In this instance, we'll use American Airlines as an example.

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Let's say I'm looking for a flight from Miami (MIA) to Houston (IAH) , but I only want to fly American Airlines. I would then input C: AA, which would exclude all other carriers. This method can be helpful if you're loyal to a specific airline, but you're flying into a rival carrier's hub, like Houston, a United hub.

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Connecting in London (LHR) can be a stressful experience for many travelers. Don't want to transfer there on the way back home? No problem: you can just use code ~LHR to prevent a stopover at Heathrow. Perhaps you wanted to fly Delta to the West Coast on two segments and you prefer to connect in Minneapolis (MSP) . In this case, the routing code you would use would be DL MSP DL.

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As you can see in the screenshot above, each leg includes a stopover in Minneapolis.

How can I search ITA for specific alliance flights?

You can tell ITA Matrix to only search flights on your preferred alliance . You can also search for multiple alliances by separating them with a vertical bar character. Note that the only alliances supported are Oneworld , SkyTeam and Star Alliance .

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In this case, I searched for flights from Newark (EWR) to Paris (CDG) on Star Alliance carriers only.

Bottom line

At first glance, the ITA Matrix can seem clunky and not very user-friendly. It's not as simple as plugging in your airport codes and dates and hitting enter. You'll have to do some work to find the flight you want. Once you get past those obstacles, you can find some cheap flights, whether you're traveling now or in the future.

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Donetsk region: occupying forces capture Svitlodarsk

IRYNA BALACHUK - TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2022, 16:34

On the morning of 24 May, Russian forces entered Svitlodarsk, Donetsk Oblast, and hung up a Russian tricolour over the city administration building.

Source : Vilne (Free) Radio with reference to the head of the Svitlodarsk military administration Serhii Hoshko.

Details : According to the head of the City Military Administration, armed invaders are already walking the streets, checking the documents of local residents.

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Residents said they did not see a large presence of occupying troops - they are in small groups of 5 people.

On 23 May, the Russians captured the neighbouring town of Myronivskyi.

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Intense shelling rocks eastern Ukraine.

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By Andrew E. Kramer

SEVERODONETSK, Ukraine — Several intense artillery barrages by Russia-backed separatists on Saturday targeted a pocket of Ukrainian government-controlled territory around the town of Svitlodarsk, a spot that has worried security analysts for weeks because of its proximity to industrial infrastructure, including storage tanks for poisonous gas.

The artillery fire picked up along the entire length of the front line, Ukraine’s interior ministry said in a statement in which it reported mortars, artillery shells and rocket-propelled grenades being fired “along the whole line of confrontation.” It was about double the level of the previous two days, the statement said.

The Ukrainian defense ministry said Saturday night that two soldiers had been killed and five injured.

The most frequently targeted area from midnight until about 2 p.m. on Saturday was in the vicinity of Svitlodarsk, near a chemical plant in separatist-controlled territory about six miles away. The site has seemed ripe for provocation, Ukrainian military analysts have said.

The sprawling plant is one of Europe’s largest fertilizer factories. A stray shell from returning fire from the Ukrainian Army risks hitting pressurized tanks and more than 12 miles of pipelines holding poisonous ammonia gas. The United States has warned the Russian government could stage an incident with poisonous chemicals to justify intervention.

Residents in the village of Luhansk, near Svitloldarsk, said both sides had been opening fire in recent days.

“When we are very nervous, we will leave,” said Yana Tinyakova, 31. “But we built this house with our hands. We don’t want to leave. This is ours. We have no place to escape to. If even we had a place to go, we don’t want to, because this is our home.”

The area is also seen as a potential flash point for a nearby water and pipe network that crosses the front line and supplies drinking water to several million people on both sides of the conflict, including residents of the city of Donetsk, one of the capitals of the two self-declared separatist states backed by Moscow in eastern Ukraine. A cutoff of that water supply amid fighting in 2014 hastened an outflow of refugees from the city.

On Saturday, Russia’s Interfax news agency, cited Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, as saying that shelling had damaged a pumping station and water pipes. He said the water supply was again at risk.

With each side of the conflict striving to control the narrative as much as any disputed piece of ground, the reported loss of water for residents in the Russian-backed areas came as a setback for Ukraine as it reinforced Russian assertions of dire conditions for civilians.

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday ordered ministers in his cabinet and members of Parliament to travel to front-line villages, the head of the Ukrainian security council said.

The move seemed intended to signal to Ukrainians that he was rallying his government to defend the country, while officials could also help draw international attention to civilian suffering in front-line towns.

Andrew E. Kramer is a reporter based in the Moscow bureau. He was part of a team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for a series on Russia’s covert projection of power. More about Andrew E. Kramer

Russia takes control of Donetsk region town of Svitlodarsk - governor

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KYIV — Russian forces have taken control of three Donetsk region towns including Svitlodarsk, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told a local affiliate of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Russian-backed Donetsk People’s Republic said in a post on the Telegram messaging service that its forces had taken control of the town and replaced the Ukrainian flag with a Russian flag.

Svitlodarsk is 80 kilometers southwest of Sievierodonetsk, the focus of Russian attacks in recent days. (Writing by Conor Humphries)

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May 25, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news

By Rhea Mogul , Joshua Berlinger, Hafsa Khalil and Adrienne Vogt , CNN

Regional military chief: Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from contested town of Svitlodarsk

From CNN's Kostan Nechyporenko

Russian forces have taken the contested town of Svitlodarsk in the eastern Donbas region and Ukrainian forces have withdrawn, according to Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional military administration.

"About 10,000 civilians remain in occupied Svitlodarsk," Kyrylenko said Tuesday. "No more than 30% of the population left the city. Today, May 24, the Russian army entered Svitlodarsk in the Donetsk region. Russian flags have already been hoisted there."

According to Kyrylenko, Svitlodarsk had been surrounded on three sides, and the city had not been under intense shelling, so much of the civilian population remained.  

"This is not a retreat [of the Armed Forces of Ukraine], but a regrouping," he said. "This is the right and logical decision in this situation to save the lives of [the military] and regroup."

Pro-Russian Telegram channels showed images of the Russian flag being hoisted over the city administration building in Svitlodarsk.

Kyrylenko also described the situation as "very difficult" in Lyman, a city further north in Donetsk region. "The situation there is now one of the tensest along the entire front line," he said.

200 bodies found in ruins of Mariupol high-rise, Ukrainian official says

From CNN's Maria Kostenko

A Ukrainian official from the Russian-controlled port city of Mariupol claimed 200 bodies had been discovered in the rubble of a ruined high-rise building, another gruesome find in the city that has been devastated by months of Russian bombardment. 

Petro Andriushenko, adviser to Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko, said in a statement on Telegram Tuesday that around 200 bodies were found during the dismantling of the rubble of a high-rise building near a suburban gas station. The bodies were found in a basement underneath the wrecked building in an advanced state of decomposition, he added.

"Due to the refusal of locals to collect and pack up the bodies of the dead, the Russian Ministry of Emergencies left the site," Andriushchenko said. "The bodies of the dead remained in place. The stench can be smelled almost throughout the quarter due to partially dismantled debris."

CNN was not able to immediately verify Andriushchenko's claim. Andriushchenko is not in Mariupol but has served as a clearinghouse for information from residents remaining in the city. 

Residential buildings heavily damaged during the Russian attack on the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, on May 11.

Ukrainian officials say more than 20,000 residents of the city died during three months of war — a figure that cannot be independently supported — and many of the dead have been hastily buried in courtyards. 

Andriushchenko said the process of reburying the dead has been complicated by Russian officials' insistence that reclaimed bodies be brought to a morgue and that a person claiming a body must agree to record a video in which the applicant says the deceased was killed by the Ukrainian military. 

"The city has turned into a continuous cemetery," Andriushchenko said. 

Society "may not survive" Putin's war, says billionaire George Soros

From CNN's Jeanne Sahadi

Russia's invasion of Ukraine may have marked the start of "a third world war," and Russian President Vladimir Putin must be defeated "as soon as possible" if the world wants to preserve civilization.

That was the stark message that Hungarian-born billionaire and philanthropist George Soros delivered on Tuesday to attendees at the 2022 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

"Even when the fighting stops, as it eventually must, the situation will never revert" to where it was before, warned the 91-year-old   Soros. "Other issues that concern all of humanity — fighting pandemics and climate change, avoiding nuclear war, maintaining global institutions — have had to take a back seat to that struggle. That's why I say civilization may not survive."

The former hedge fund manager, who is chair of Soros Fund Management LLC and founder of the Open Society Foundations, is famous for using his wealth to help foster open societies and create inclusive democracies with governments that are held accountable.

But after the events of September 11, he noted, the tide began to turn against open societies. As a result, "repressive regimes are now in the ascendance and open societies are under siege," he said Tuesday. "Today, China and Russia present the greatest threat to open society."

Society 'may not survive' Putin's war, says billionaire George Soros

Society 'may not survive' Putin's war, says billionaire George Soros

Ukrainian special forces release video of military using foreign-made kamikaze drones.

From CNN's Vasco Cotovio

The Ukrainian military has for the first time released footage of special forces using foreign-made  kamikaze drones  targeting Russian positions. According to the Ukrainian military, the drone was equipped with a powerful explosive that caused damage to a Russian tank after it flew into it. 

"The combat use of kamikaze UAVs is a constant practice for SOF of Ukraine in the war with Russian invaders," the Ukrainian military said. "This is a good example of how the help of foreign partners together with the training and professionalism of our soldiers give positive results at the front."

The US sent 100  Switchblade drones  to the Ukrainian military in April. The small, portable, so-called kamikaze drones carry warheads and detonate on impact. The smallest model can hit a target up to 6 miles (about 10 kilometers) away, according to a company that produces the drones.

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