Europe’s leading airline easyJet and the UK’s fastest growing tour operator easyJet holidays have announced they will launch a new route from Birmingham to popular holiday destination Fuerteventura, with package holidays now on sale for next summer.

A new base with the addition of three aircraft at Birmingham from spring 2024 has enabled the airline to further expand its Birmingham network, offering more services that will prove popular with both leisure and business travellers flying from the UK’s second largest city.

easyJet already serves routes from Birmingham to popular beach and city destinations Amsterdam, Geneva, Milan, Naples, Lisbon, Faro and Palma de Mallorca and key domestic connections to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast. In June, the airline confirmed it would launch 15 new routes from next summer, meaning easyJet will now offer a total of 29 routes from Birmingham – including brand new destination Fuerteventura.

Holidaymakers from Birmingham looking for a relaxing beach holiday, or exciting city escape, now have thousands of packages to choose from with easyJet holidays including to Fuerteventura, the second largest of Spain’s Canary Islands.

easyJet holidays customers have exclusive early access and can now book packages online at www.easyjet.com/en/holidays or by calling 0330 365 5005. What’s more, packages include flights, hotel, 23kg luggage and transfers on beach holidays, all covered by its Ultimate Flexibility, offering freedom to change a booking, a refund guarantee, and best price guarantee. 

Flights across the new routes will be on sale on easyJet.com in the coming months.

The island boasts sparkling stretches of powder-soft, white-sand beaches and offers some of the best surfing opportunities in the Canary Islands. Whether you’re looking to soak up the sun, enjoy water sports, snorkel in pristine turquoise waters or spend quality time with the kids, there’s a perfect beach for everyone.

Customers from Birmingham have a huge range of package holidays to choose from:

 

> easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 3* Globales Costa Tropical on an All Inclusive basis for £519 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from Birmingham on 20th June 2024.

 

> easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 4* Occidental Jandia Playa on a Half Board basis for £582 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from Birmingham on 16^th May 2024.

 

> easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 5* Iberostar Selection Fuerteventura Palace on a Half Board basis for £879 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from Birmingham on 18^th April 2024.

 

> easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 4* Labranda Bahia de Lobos on a HalfBoard basis for £685 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from Birmingham on 18^th April 2024.

 

Ali Gayward, easyJet’s UK Country Manager, said:

“We are delighted to announce further network expansion for our new base in Birmingham, which will create around 100 direct jobs for pilots and crew and over 1,200 more indirect jobs.

“Investing in Birmingham further strengthens easyJet’s network by positioning it as the carrier of choice to serve UK consumers and capture the continued demand for travel, further growing its share of the UK leisure market for both the airline and easyJet holidays.”

Paul Bixby, Commercial Director at easyJet holidays, said:

“We’re delighted to have launched package holidays from Birmingham to Fuerteventura today, following the announcement of the newest aircraft base which will ensure our brilliant holidays at unbeatable prices are available to holidaymakers across the UK into Summer 2024and beyond”

Tom Screen, Aviation Director for Birmingham Airport, said: “As we continue to bask in the warm glow of the news easyJet  will base three of its A320 aircrafts at BHX from March 2024, we are struck by yet more good news with EasyJet Holidays’ serving Fuerteventura from BHX, an established favourite offering customers greater choice and frequency next summer.”

To find out more about easyJet’s network from Birmingham, visit easyJet.com.

 

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Notes to editors:

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About easyJet holidays:

easyJet holidays is the UK’s fastest growing tour operator, having carried 1.3 million people in first fully operational year as well as reaching the milestone of our three-millionth customer booking. It offers great-value beach, city and lakes holidays to over 5000 hotels, in more than 100 destinations across Europe, directly through its website and through over 5000 travel agent partners. The tour operator is a member of ABTA, and its ATOL-protected holidays can be secured with a deposit of just £60 per person, including flights, hotel, 23kg luggage and transfers on beach holidays.

Winners of the Sustainable Future Award at the Globe Travel Awards 2022, easyJet holidays has a sustainability strategy focusing on three key pillars – create better holiday choices which is about making sustainable travel affordable and accessible to everyone; keep our holidays special which is maximising the benefits and minimising the negative impacts of travel and tourism, and transform travel for everyone which means embedding sustainability into business decisions and behaviours and driving meaningful change in the industry. Through ongoing collaboration with the University of Oxford, and as a member of the GSTC, easyJet holidays is focused on building its research, partnerships and certifications, and taking action to make a positive impact on the people and places that make its destinations so special.

easyJet holidays has been named one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 – being called out as one of the most loved employers and highly commended as a great place to work for LGBTQIA+ employees, as well as being named one of the Best Workplaces in Travel 2022.

About easyJet

easyJet is Europe’s leading airline offering a unique and winning combination of the best route network connecting Europe's primary airports, with great value fares and friendly service.

easyJet flies on more of Europe’s most popular routes than any other airline and carried more than 69 million passengers in 2022 – with 9.5 million travelling for business. The airline has over 300 aircraft on nearly 1000 routes to more than 150 airports across 35 countries. Over 300 million Europeans live within one hour's drive of an easyJet airport.

easyJet aims to be a good corporate citizen, employing people on local contracts in eight countries across Europe in full compliance with national laws and recognising their trade unions. The airline supports several local charities and has a corporate partnership with UNICEF which has raised over £16m for the most vulnerable children since it was established in 2012.

The airline joined the UN-backed Race to Zero in November 2021 and has published its roadmap to net zero carbon emissions by 2050, with a focus on new technology and the ultimate ambition to achieve zero carbon emission flying across its entire fleet, which the airline is working on together with its partners including Airbus, Rolls-Royce, GKN Aerospace, Cranfield Aerospace Solutions and Wright Electric. The roadmap also features a combination of fleet renewal, operational efficiencies, airspace modernisation, Sustainable Aviation Fuel and carbon removal technology. Additionally, it includes an interim carbon emissions intensity reduction target of 35% by 2035 (versus 2019). Since 2000, the airline has already reduced its carbon emissions per passenger, per kilometre by one-third through continued fleet renewal, efficient operations and aiming to fill most of its seats.

Innovation is in easyJet’s DNA – since launching over 25 years ago, easyJet changed the way people fly to the present day where the airline leads the industry in digital, web, engineering and operational innovations to make travel more easy and affordable for its passengers.