Italian flag carrier, Alitalia has expanded its codeshare partnership with Air Seychelles, to offer travellers convenient air connections to Madagascar and South Africa.

Under the agreement, Alitalia will place its AZ flight code on Air Seychelles’ four-weekly service to the Malagasy capital of Antananarivo and five-weekly service to Johannesburg.

Subject to government approvals, the Italian flag carrier will also codeshare on Air Seychelles’ upcoming twice-weekly service to Durban, set to commence on 30 March 2017.

Business and leisure travellers from Italy will be able to connect onto these services via Air Seychelles-operated flights from Abu Dhabi and Paris to Seychelles, with a single combined ticket.

The new flights are already on sale for travel from 18 January, 2017 and can be booked through travel agents, airseychelles.com, alitalia.com or by visiting any of the airlines’ sales offices.

Alitalia's MilleMiglia loyalty programme members can also earn miles on these new codeshared services.