Virgin joins easyJet’s worldwide partnership
Virgin Atlantic has been signed up as the latest airline to join the ‘Worldwide by easyJet’ partnership.
It means easyJet customers can seamlessly connect through London Gatwick between easyJet and Virgin Atlantic flights.
‘Worldwide by easyJet’ partners already include Norwegian, WestJet, Thomas Cook Airlines, Corsair, and Loganair.
EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren said: "Given we both serve many popular destinations from London Gatwick, we are confident their addition to Worldwide will be very popular with our customers.
"We have been delighted with the appetite of partner airports and airlines to expand Worldwide across our network and continue to broaden our focus to launch more airline partners and add connectivity to more of our biggest airports. Tens of millions of connecting passengers travel each year with journeys which begin or end in Europe."
EasyJet said it will continue to sign up other airlines during 2018, with talks progressing with middle and far-eastern carriers amongst others and the airline also plans to expand to other key easyJet airports in Europe.
Earlier this month it announced that Singapore Airlines and its low-cost subsidiary airline Scoot will also join.
The service is expected to be available within the coming months.
EasyJet insisted the Worldwide scheme does not impact its punctuality because it will not hold flights for connecting passengers.
‘Worldwide by easyJet’ is subject to a 2 hour 30 minute minimum connection time.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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