Italian carrier ITA AIrways has agreed a codeshare deal with SkyTeam partner Korean Air. The codeshare covers a series of connecting flights from the partners’ respective hubs at Rome Fiumicino and Seoul Incheon, as well as on Korean’s existing flights linking Seoul to both the Italian capital and Milan Malpensa airport. The Korean carrier will add its code to 11 ITA domestic routes and on its services to Athens, Barcelona, Cairo, Madrid and Munich. ITA will do likewise on Korean’s domestic connections from Seoul to Busan and Daegu, as well four routes to Japan. It marks the 32nd codeshare struck by ITA since its launch two years ago as a successor carrier to Alitalia. While ITA followed its predecessor into SkyTeam – Alitalia formerly had a codeshare with Korean Air – it could ultimately be bound for rival grouping Star Alliance under plans for its acquisition by Lufthansa.<br/>
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A recent Facebook post about a China Eastern Airlines inflight menu has raised eyebrows and drawn numerous comments online. On Nov 11, Mr Conrad Wu posted a picture of the lunch and dinner menu, purportedly for business class passengers, with an arrow pointing to “imported dog food/okra” as one of the options for the appetiser. “What exactly is this?” he asked in the caption accompanying the picture. The post has since garnered over a thousand reactions, numerous comments and shares. Some users humorously questioned if the airline had suddenly become “pet-friendly”, while others theorised that there may be an error in translation. After all, the option of “corn dragon bone soup” did not make sense to these netizens either. The Straits Times has contacted China Eastern Airlines for more information. <br/>