ITA Airways (AZ, Rome Fiumicino) operated its first commercial flight to Libya in almost ten years on July 24, 2023, albeit as a charter. The carrier is studying the resumption of scheduled services following a recent diplomatic agreement between Italy and Libya. Italy and Libya reached an agreement to reopen direct flights in early July 2023, becoming the third EU member state to do so. As such, despite the agreement between Libya and Italy, only European carriers will benefit from the move for now. The current scheduled EU-Libya network is limited to flights operated by Marathon Airlines (3x weekly Athens-Benghazi) and Malta MedAir (4x weekly Malta International-Tripoli and weekly Malta-Misurata).
