> Holidays to be available from Southend 7 days a week from 1st May 2025

> Set to be the biggest summer yet with continued growth for package holidays

Tour operator easyJet holidays has today announced thousands more package holidays from Southend, with six new destinations on offer following the expansion of the easyJet network with a three-aircraft base opening next March.

Available seven days a week from 1 May 2025 to new beach and city destinations of Gran Canaria, Italy, Marrakech, Tunisia and Turkey. Flights from Southend further complement easyJet holidays summer 2025 programme already on sale to the likes of Spanish hotspots Alicante, Palma de Mallorca and Malaga alongside cities of Amsterdam and Paris with further destinations to be announced in the coming months.

Set to be the biggest summer season yet for the package holiday provided, fuelled by consumer holiday demand proven by recent financial results of 42% customer growth YoY alongside utilising opportunities in other regions across the UK, with the recent base launch at Birmingham International airport, as flights are expected to carry one of the highest proportions of easyJet holidays’ customers.

Offering over 7,000 hotels across its vast and diverse portfolio with over 100 European destinations to enjoy and thousands of free kids spaces up for grabs, with holidays on offer across the rest of the network until the end of October 2025.

Paul Bixby, easyJet holidays’ Chief Commercial Officer said: “We are delighted to be offering new destinations and thousands more package holidays for customers in and around the surrounding areas of Southend for summer 2025, with many more destinations to come later in the year to give even more choice.

“We’ve got thousands of hotels to choose from, at prices to suit all budgets, so we’re looking forward to seeing what’s popular, and delivering even more brilliant holiday experiences.”

Tours and experiences further enhances the brilliant holidays on offer via our partner Musement, with hundreds of explorative activities to choose from.

All easyJet holidays 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. 

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About easyJet holidays:

easyJet holidays, offers great-value beach, city and lakes holidays to over 7000 hotels, in more than 100 destinations across Europe, directly through its website and through over 5000 travel agent partners. Named Rising Brand of the Year  byTravolution following launch in 2019, having taken almost 2 million people away in 2023. 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 2024 – 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.