EasyJet launches five new routes from Birmingham

As the aviation industry waits to see what the travel restrictions will be in place this summer, easyJet has announced significant expansion at Birmingham. The West Midlands airport, which was hit hard by the collapses of Monarch, Thomas Cook and Flybe, has gained five summer holiday links to southern Europe with Britain’s biggest budget airline. Starting on 29 June easyJet intends to connect Birmingham with the key Iberian holiday airports: Alicante, Malaga and Palma in Spain and Faro in Portugal. Corfu in Greece will also be a new easyJet route. Initial frequencies are low: twice a week to Corfu and Malaga, and thrice weekly to the other destinations. Ali Gayward, easyJet’s UK country manager, said: “We’ve kept our fleet in a flight-ready mode so we are ready and able to ramp up our services quickly and increase our capacity where we see increased demand for the summer.”<br/>