Air France vs ITA Airways
ITA Airways scores 8.5/10 against Air France at 8/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare.
By Jon Miksis · cabin data verified · fares for travel November 8–14, 2026
Best product each one flies
Scored on what can be verified. Service, food and ground recovery are absent deliberately: they need someone in the seat, and they live in the reviews rather than here.
One caveat on the Value line, stated rather than buried: Value is computed from business fares, and a carrier with too few of them does not get a Value score at all. Where you see a dash, we have fewer than three priced business routes for that airline and did not want to invent a figure from one or two — so its product score is the mean of three dimensions rather than four, and it is not directly comparable to a score built on hundreds of fares. The airlines with the most fares behind them are named on the business-class ranking.
Air France
A350-900 / 777 (new Business Suite)
- Seat
- 10/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 4/10
- Product score
- 8/10
ITA Airways
A350-900
- Seat
- 10/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 6/10
- Product score
- 8.5/10
Dimension by dimension
Seat: level
10/10 on the A350-900 / 777 (new Business Suite) against 10/10 on the A350-900.
IFE: level
Screens, connectivity and power: 8/10 against 8/10.
Lounge & bags: level
What the fare includes before you board: 10/10 against 10/10.
Value: ITA Airways
Median premium over the cheapest carrier on the same route: 4/10 against 6/10.
Where both were priced on the same dates
Every fare is November 8–14, 2026, so a difference between two rows is a difference between two airlines and nothing else. These are economy fares, while the cabin scores above describe the business product — read them as how each airline prices against its competitors, not as what its business seat costs.
| Route | Cabin | Air France | ITA Airways | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOS → FLR | economy | $893 | $666 | ITA Airways by $227 |
| IAD → VCE | economy | $1856 | $693 | ITA Airways by $1163 |
| BOS → NCE | economy | $786 | $729 | ITA Airways by $57 |
| JFK → FLR | economy | $732 | $870 | Air France by $138 |
| LAX → FLR | economy | $821 | $746 | ITA Airways by $75 |
| IAD → FLR | economy | $1387 | $746 | ITA Airways by $641 |
| JFK → VCE | economy | $847 | $754 | ITA Airways by $93 |
| LAX → VCE | economy | $1316 | $766 | ITA Airways by $550 |
| MIA → FLR | economy | $1372 | $770 | ITA Airways by $602 |
| JFK → ATH | economy | $1002 | $779 | ITA Airways by $223 |
| BOS → VCE | economy | $897 | $796 | ITA Airways by $101 |
| IAD → NCE | economy | $1707 | $813 | ITA Airways by $894 |
| JFK → NCE | economy | $1026 | $814 | ITA Airways by $212 |
| LAX → NCE | economy | $849 | $930 | Air France by $81 |
| IAD → ATH | economy | $1860 | $936 | ITA Airways by $924 |
| LAX → VCE | business | $4943 | $4192 | ITA Airways by $751 |
| LAX → FLR | business | $6951 | $4368 | ITA Airways by $2583 |
| MIA → FLR | business | $6787 | $4493 | ITA Airways by $2294 |
| JFK → FLR | business | $5980 | $4869 | ITA Airways by $1111 |
| JFK → VCE | business | $8123 | $4957 | ITA Airways by $3166 |
| JFK → NCE | business | $12207 | $5578 | ITA Airways by $6629 |
| LAX → NCE | business | $6127 | $5578 | ITA Airways by $549 |
| LAX → CDG | business | $12561 | $5588 | ITA Airways by $6973 |
| JFK → FCO | business | $5771 | $7762 | Air France by $1991 |
| LAX → BCN | business | $7407 | $6303 | ITA Airways by $1104 |
| IAD → VCE | business | $14393 | $6744 | ITA Airways by $7649 |
| LAX → FCO | business | $7241 | $10112 | Air France by $2871 |
| IAD → ATH | business | $14211 | $9995 | ITA Airways by $4216 |
| IAD → NCE | business | $14237 | $10199 | ITA Airways by $4038 |
What happens if the aircraft swaps
Both carriers are paying-the-same-fare-either-way propositions on some frames. The worst product each one flies:
Air France
A350-900 / 777 (new Business Suite)
- Seat
- 10/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 4/10
- Product score
- 8/10
ITA Airways
A330-900neo
- Seat
- 8/10
- IFE
- 8/10
- Lounge & bags
- 10/10
- Value
- 6/10
- Product score
- 8/10
Air France: The new Business Suite with a closing door is rolling out across the A350 and select 777s. Frames not yet done keep a 1-2-1 seat without a door, so direct aisle access is constant and privacy is not.
ITA Airways: Thompson Vantage XL, the same seat family TAP flies, without a privacy door.
Common questions
- Is Air France or ITA Airways better to Europe?
- ITA Airways scores 8.5/10 against Air France at 8/10 on seat, screens, lounge and fare. On the four dimensions we can verify, Air France wins 0 and ITA Airways wins 1. Service and food are not scored here because they cannot be read off a spec sheet.
- Which is cheaper, Air France or ITA Airways?
- On the 29 routes where both were priced for the same week (November 8–14, 2026), Air France was cheaper on 4 and ITA Airways on 25. Every pair of fares is the same departure and return date in the same cabin, so the difference is the airline rather than the dates or the cabin.
- Does the aircraft change the answer?
- Yes. ITA Airways scores 10/10 on the A350-900 and 8/10 on the A330-900neo. Check the equipment on your date before deciding.
- Has Jon flown either of these?
- Neither, so this page is product facts and fares only. Any review we publish of either will be labeled Researched until that changes.
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