EasyJet is adding a second route from the UK to Akureyri in North Iceland. Twice-weekly Akureyri flights will launch from Manchester from November 12, 2024. The announcement follows the success of the existing London Gatwick to Akureyri flights launched last winter. The Gatwick route will also return for winter 2024/25. Flights will operate on Saturdays and Tuesdays from both Manchester and London Gatwick airports. Brits make up the highest number of visitors to North Iceland during the winter season. In recent years, efforts have been made to establish direct international flights through Akureyri and Egilsstaðir as part of the Nature Direct project in cooperation with Visit Iceland, Isavia, Visit North Iceland and Austurbrú. This collaboration and momentum have contributed to easyJet's decision to now fly to Akureyri from two airports in the UK next winter. Guests will touch down at the expanded Akureyri Airport, which is currently undergoing terminal expansion. "EasyJet flights from London to Akureyri have been very successful, and soon after they started, we began working with our partners to secure flights to more destinations," says Arnheiður Jóhannsdóttir, MD of North Iceland Marketing Office. "It is gratifying that the decision to offer flights from Manchester was made immediately following a good first winter for easyJet here in North Iceland." EasyJet is the only airline offering a direct connection between the UK and Northern Iceland. "We are delighted to launch a second route this winter," says Ali Gayward, easyJet's UK country manager. "We are committed to supporting the development of tourism in Iceland." Chris Hagan, UK Representative for Visit North Iceland added: "The addition of twice weekly Manchester flights this coming winterwill allow both UK operators and agents to capitalise on the opportunity to showcase North Iceland." Prices start from £50.17 one-way including taxes 

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EasyJet is launching a new route from London Southend to Tenerife, with package holidays now on sale for summer 2025. London Southend flight only bookings to Tenerife will be available to book in the coming months. The new Tenerife flights adds to easyJet holidays' existing summer 2025 programme already on sale to Alicante, Faro, Palma de Mallorca and Malaga alongside city break destinations Amsterdam and Paris. London Southend flights for this summer are now available to book at easyJet.com and via the mobile app. Marc Taylor, acting CEO for London Southend Airport, said: "Tenerife has been in very high demand across our 8.2m catchment, so we're particularly thrilled with today's news and the continued positive momentum for our airport." All easyJet holidays packages include flights, hotel, 23kg luggage and transfers on beach holidays. 

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Leisure airline easyJet has put its spring 2025 schedule on sale. It amounts to millions of seats across thousands of easyJet flights between 3 March 2025 and 15 June 2025 including to and from the UK. Seats are available to book now at easyJet.com or via the mobile app, starting from £26.99. There are spring flights to over 120 destinations across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East departing from 21 UK airports. It is joined with the launch of thousands more holiday packages for spring 2025 available to book through easyJet holidays. This comprises a choice of over 7,000 hotels for holiday packages including flights, accommodation, 23kg luggage and transfers on beach getaways. Popular destinations now on sale for spring 2025 include Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Turkey and Tunisia. There are also free kid’s spaces on easyJet holiday packages. “We’re delighted to be putting our flights for Easter and spring 2025 on sale so customers have plenty of choice when planning ahead for their holidays next year,” said Ali Gayward, UK Country Manager for easyJet.

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Leisure airline easyJet this week announced London Southend Airport will become its newest UK airport base. The move will create over 100 new jobs and at least six new London Southend flight routes from summer 2025. London Southend becomes the airline’s 10^th UK airport base. EasyJet plans to base three A320neo aircraft at the airport The airline already flies to Amsterdam, Geneva, Faro, Palma de Mallorca, Malaga and Paris CDG from the airport, which it has flown from since 2012. “This move is indicative of the demand the east of London, Essex and the wider East Anglia region who now have greater opportunities,” said John Upton, CEO of London Southend Airport. EasyJet opened its ninth UK base in March at Birmingham International. The new Southend flight routes are to Pisa, Italy, Gran Canaria, Dalaman, Antalya, Marrakech and Enfidha, Tunisia. 

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CEO Johan Lundgren will step down at easyJet in early 2025. The company announced a succession plan with chief financial officer, Kenton Jarvis set to take over. The transition takes place on 1 January 2025. Lundgren will stay on until mid-May to ensure an ‘orderly’ succession. Lundgren joined from TUI and became CEO of easyJet in 2017. “Johan has done an excellent job as our CEO steering the company through the immense challenges of the Covid period, and setting up a clear strategy and strong execution plan,” said chairman Stephen Hester. “There is good positive momentum and Johan will be with us to close out the current year.” The move was revealed as easyJet gave a trading update for the six months to the end of March. Easyjet said it has sold more than three-quarters of seat capacity for the current quarter to the end of June and 40% are sold for the July to September period. Tour operator Easyjet Holidays will likely generate £170m of profit before tax, it says. Overall, the company business is still on track to meet its target of over £1bn in pre-tax profit. “Our two newest bases, Alicante and Birmingham, are achieving passenger numbers well above the network average and we have announced a tenth UK base at London Southend from next March,” Lundgren said. 

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EasyJet has marked the milestone of carrying 250 million passengers to and from London Gatwick Airport. The airline started flying there on 16 December 1999 with the inaugural flight to Geneva. It opened a Gatwick base in 2002. To mark the occasion the airline surprised passengers Amy Lovegrove and Richard Hansen from Crawley, who were flying to Rhodes with free easyJet return flights. EasyJet now operates 68 aircraft from the airport which is the largest base in its network and carries almost 20 million passengers a year on 102 routes. Over the last year easyJet has introduced new routes to four destinations from London Gatwick including to Calvi in France, the Greek Island of Skiathos, Akureyri in Iceland and Salerno on Italy’s Amalfi coast. Mark Johnston, COO, London Gatwick, said: “It is fantastic to see easyJet reach such a momentous milestone after many successful years of operations.” “Their presence at London Gatwick is significant and we will continue working collaboratively to further grow a diverse choice of routes.” 

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EasyJet has added a new aircraft to its base at Glasgow Airport to support demand for summer holiday travel. The new neo aircraft is the sixth jet to be based in Glasgow and supports easyJet’s largest ever flying programme from Scotland this summer. The airline is offering over 2.2 million seats to and from Glasgow. There are 86 routes across 19 countries in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa available to Scottish holidaymakers. The airline has also launched brand new flights to Enfidha in Tunisia for the first time, now operating twice weekly on Thursdays and Sundays throughout the year. A new route to Larnaca in Cyprus is set also set take off for the first time this Saturday. Ali Gayward, easyJet’s UK Country Manager, said: “We are delighted to be welcoming the sixth aircraft and launching more new routes for our biggest ever summer in Scotland.” EasyJet operated it’s very first flight from Glasgow to London Luton over 27 years ago. Since then the airline has flown over 42 million passengers from the airport. Mark Beveridge, MD at Glasgow Airport said: “It has been nearly 30 years since easyJet’s first-ever flight and in the ensuing years the relationship has gone from strength to strength.” 

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EasyJet has halted Israel flights once again. After escalating Israel-Iran tensions, easyJet says it will postpone all Tel Aviv flights until at least the end of this week. Meanwhile, Wizz Air hopes to resume its Israel flights today after cancelling services on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Wizz Air says if flights resume there will likely be some schedule changes. “Due to the evolving situation in Israel, easyJet has taken the decision to temporarily pause operations to until 21 April. The safety and security of our passengers and crew is always the highest priority,” easyJet said. Airlines including Air Canada, Delta, Iberia and Lufthansa also suspended Israel flights until further notice. The situation across the region was far reaching with flights cancelled beyond Israel and causing hiccups for carriers operating Asia-Europe long haul routes Qantas is rerouting flights between Australia and Europe to avoid flying over the Persian Gulf and Iraq. It also added a refueling stop in Singapore for the Perth-London leg. Emirates and Etihad Airways announced changes to their flight paths, with both airlines rerouting flights to avoid airspace over certain conflict zones in the Middle East. British Airways temporarily suspended flights to and from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to security concerns. 

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EasyJet holidays has further expanded its trade team, adding two more Trade Distribution Managers. The team is now six strong with wider support from the trade function. Jo Brookman and Dale Marriott will engage and support travel agent partners. Brookman has 28 years of experience in travel with previous roles at Thomas Cook, Freedom Travel Group and Club Med. Marriott has 20 years in the industry as a customer rep overseas, and also owned his own travel agency. The team will soon be hitting the road within the UK with further TOOT travel agent roadshows across Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. Natasha Marson, Head of Trade Distribution said: “We look forward to hosting more exciting events with a fully resourced team, alongside offering further trade exclusive incentives.” TOOT roadshow 2024 schedule: LIVERPOOL:  Tuesday 16 April, 6.30pm, The Bierkeller Liverpool, 6-8 Thomas Steers Way MANCHESTER:  Wednesday 17 April, 6.30pm The Bierkeller Hall - The Printworks, Withy Grove BIRMINGHAM:  Thursday 18 April, 6.30pm The Stable Bar, 115 John Bright St 

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EasyJet holidays has extended its trade discount for new package holidays as it kicks off the summer 2024 season. The trade promo is offering travel agents the chance to boost sales with up to £100 off a minimum spend of £800 and £200 off a minimum spend of £2,000. Agents should use code TRADESAVER on package holiday bookings which was extended to 11.00pm on 1 April. Beach holidays are on sale at over 5,000 hotels in 100 destinations, with free kids places up for grabs up to 31 October 2025. Matt Callaghan, COO at easyJet holidays said: “Everyone at easyJet holidays is thrilled to be kicking off our summer season and getting more customers away than ever before.” "Our destination management partners have worked hard to ensure they are ready to welcome holidaymakers.” 

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EasyJet has put flights on sale for its expanded winter 2024/25 schedule. It adds up to over 18 million seats on more than 100,000 flights from December to 2 March 2025. Extra seats are now available to book across the route network. Overall it includes over 10 million seats to and from the UK across on 57,000 flights. Seats are available from £24.99. It includes available seats during the festive season and for ski holidays as well as city breaks and beach holidays. Seats are now available on over 500 routes to and from the UK. Plus, thousand more package holidays for winter 2024 are available to book through easyJet holidays. Ali Gayward, UK Country Manager for easyJet, said: “By putting millions of seats on sale across over 500 routes, we are providing more choice and value for our customers in the UK.” 

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EasyJet holidays has updated its animal welfare policy, ditching all tours that include animal-based attractions. Animal welfare is a key priority of its business operations, it says. After consulting animal welfare charities including World Animal Protection, it has scrapped all animal attraction focused tours. This includes animal rides, zoos, animal performances, and marine parks. These attractions will no longer be promoted by easyJet The move has been applauded by animal rights group PETA. Additionally, easyJet says it will encourage hotel partners to follow its animal welfare policy. Matt Callaghan, easyJet holidays’ COO, said: “Our own research tells us that sustainable travel experiences are important to our customers, so we want to make it easy for them to holiday better.” Katheryn Wise, wildlife campaigns manager at World Animal Protection UK, said: “EasyJet holidays has really stepped up for animals with this strong and ambitious animal welfare policy.” “It has been a pleasure to work with a company focused on listening to their customers.” 

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