easyJet holidays, the UK’s fastest growing tour operator, has launched in France and Germany with holidaymakers now being able to book package holidays departing from 9 January 2024. The new markets follow Switzerland, launched in August 2023.

Replicating the same business model within the UK, customers can experience great value beach holidays and city breaks to more than 3,000 hotels with holiday types including options for beach, luxury, family or adult-only available at various board options: all inclusive, half board, bed and breakfast and room only.

In France easyJet holidays are offering 63 locations across Europe, flying from 16 airports including Paris Charles-de-Galle, Paris-Orly, Nice Cote d’Azur and Lyon-Saint Exupery airport. Whilst in Germany 47 destinations will be launched with flying from Berlin, Munich and Hamburg.

The announcement comes weeks after easyJet holidays announced £122 million profit before tax and 221% growth in its full year 2023.

To support the new European markets, easyJet holidays has further invested in its customer service, offering 24/7 customer support with French and German speaking agents. Alongside utilising cutting-edge technology, customers will also have access to a user-friendly online help centre to enjoy a seamless booking and management process.

Garry Wilson, easyJet holidays’ Chief Executive Officer, said:

“Ever since we launched our business we had ambitions to be a pan European tour operator, so we are thrilled to launch our easyJet holidays business in France and Germany, following our launch into Switzerland back in August. “We’re currently the UK’s fastest growing tour operator and we’re looking forward to making our mark in Europe and helping our French and German customers find their perfect package holiday.”

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About easyJet holidays:

easyJet holidays, which launched in 2019 is the UK’s fastest growing tour operator, having taken almost 2 million people away in 2023. Named Rising Brand of the Year byTravolution 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 ATOL-protected holidays can be secured with a deposit of just £60 per person, including flights, hotel, 23kg luggage and transfers on beach holidays. easyJet holidays is a member of ABTA, and all packages are covered by its Ultimate Flexibility, offering freedom to change a booking, a refund guarantee, and best price guarantee. In 2024 the holiday provider will also start operating from Switzerland, France and Germany.

Winners of the Sustainable Future Award at the Globe Travel Awards, 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. The tour operator has partnered with the UNWTO to help develop the first environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework for tourism businesses, co-designing a measurement tool that is meaningful and feasible for better monitoring how tourism businesses impact, and depend on, people, planet and prosperity.

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 2023.