The airline will operate its busiest day on Monday 31st August when around 366k customers are expected to jet off on nearly 2,200 flights across Europe and beyond

  • Over a quarter of children travelling on package holidays for free with easyJet holidays

  • Palma, Faro and Alicante the most popular destinations for UK holidaymakers with package holidays to Turkey, the Balearics and Greece among the favourites for families

As schools prepare to break up across the UK this week, easyJet and easyJet holidays are set to see their biggest ever summer with over 80,000 network wide during the school holidays and over 380k flights across the summer season.

Over seven million UK customers are set to take to the skies on over 45,000 flights to and from the UK alone during the school break.

The airline is operating its biggest ever summer this year, with eight additional Airbus A320 family aircraft having joined its UK-based fleet at Bristol, Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow.

More than 39 million seats are set to operate to and from the UK across the whole summer season, half a million more than last year, while 53 new routes are operating for the first time this summer, with more choice to longer leisure destinations like Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.

The airline’s will operate its busiest day of the summer season on 31st August on nearly 2200 flights are set to take off with over 366k customers, as thousands of families across the UK return from their summer break, while others jet off on their well-deserved holidays.

Spanish Malaga and Palma de Mallorca top the list for the most popular summer destinations from the UK this summer, as well as Faro in Portugal proving to be a firm favourite for those seeking guaranteed sun, outstanding food, culture and natural beauty.

easyJet holidays is also set for its biggest ever summer, with more than a quarter of children travelling on its package holidays doing so for free through the tour operator’s free child places. Club Mac Alcudia in Majorca is the most popular hotel this summer, closely followed by One Resort Aqua Park in Tunisia.

Closer to home, Edinburgh followed by Belfast are the most popular UK destinations for people travelling across the UK to friends and relatives during the summer holidays.

Kevin Doyle, easyJet’s UK Country Manager, said:

"Every year, millions of customers continue to choose our flights and easyJet holidays for the unrivalled choice of destinations we offer across our network, our great value fares and our crew’s fantastic service.

“And this year with more seats, new routes and package holidays, we’re offering more choice for customers than ever before, and we look forward to taking them away for a well-deserved holiday, always aiming to make travel easy.”

Great value fares are still available for this summer including:

  • London Gatwick to Copenhagen from £38.99*, to Palma from £29.99*, and Faro from £29.99*

  • London Luton to Nice from £32.99*, to Berlin from £32.99*, and Malaga from £35.99*

  • London Southend to Antalya from £42.99, to Faro from £14.99 and Alicante from £14.99

  • Bristol to Geneva from 23.99*, to Madrid from £23.99* and to Nice from £32.99*

  • Birmingham to Edinburgh from £17.99* to Malaga from £20.99*, to Corfu from £23.99*

  • Manchester to Hamburg from £23.99*, to Skiathos from £29.99* and to Split from £26.99*

  • Liverpool to Paris from £14.99*, to Belfast from £22.99* and to Nice from £20.99*

  • Edinburgh to Tenerife from £45.99* to Copenhagen from £35.99 and Paris from £26.99

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Notes to editors

About easyJet

easyJet is one of Europe’s largest airlines 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 100 million passengers in 2025. The airline has over 350 aircraft flying on over 1,200 routes to more than 160 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 nine 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 £17m for the most vulnerable children since it was established in 2012.

In 2022, easyJet published its roadmap to net zero by 2050. The roadmap, which also features a combination of fleet renewal, operational efficiencies, airspace modernisation, Sustainable Aviation Fuel and carbon removal technology, has set an ambitious interim carbon emissions intensity reduction target of 35% by 2035, validated by the Science-based targets initiative (SBTi). The airline’s ultimate aim is to fully transition its fleet to zero carbon emission technology, which it will achieve through a number of strategic partnerships including with Airbus, Rolls-Royce and GKN Aerospace Solutions. Since 2000, the airline has successfully reduced its carbon emissions per passenger, per kilometre by one-third and is the number 1 ESG rated airline in Europe by Sustainalytics, MSCI and CDP.

Innovation is in easyJet’s DNA – since launching over 30 years ago, easyJet changed the way people fly to the present day where the airline leads the industry in digital and operational innovations to make travel more easy and affordable for its passengers.

In 2023 easyJet was named by TIME as one of the World’s Best Companies and a Leader in Diversity 2024 by The Financial Times.