easyJet and easyJet holidays set to deliver a cracking Easter

• Airline expects to carry up to 4.2 million customers over the Easter break, including 2.3 million to and from the UK
• The holiday getaway will be the busiest ever Easter for easyJet holidays and one of the busiest in the airline’s history
• Numbers set to peak on Good Friday with up to 262,000 customers expected to jet off across 1,800 flights
• Popular beach spots include Palma, Tenerife, Malaga and Faro with Paris and Amsterdam top for city escapes
• easyJet and easyJet holidays are operating their biggest ever summer season with seven additional aircraft joining the UK fleet and 44 new routes from the UK
• ‘Egg’cellent value fares to European favourites are still available for under £50
• Package holidays across both beach and city breaks available with easyJet holidays from just £248 per person

easyJet is expecting to fly up to 4.2 million customers over the upcoming Easter holidays in what is set to be one of the busiest Easter getaways in the airline’s history.

Families, friends, and solo adventurers are all set to jet off over Easter, with the airline operating nearly 10,000 more seats over the bank holiday weekend compared to last year.

The getaway rush is set to peak on Good Friday, 18 April, when up to 262,000 customers are expected to take to the skies on more than 1,800 flights across the airline’s extensive route network. In the UK alone, up to 145,000 customers are set to fly to or from easyJet’s 21 UK airports on 1,101 flights.

easyJet holidays will see its busiest Easter yet with Dalaman, Majorca, and Tenerife leading the charge for sunshine getaways, and Amsterdam, Barcelona and Paris for family Disneyland breaks being the city break of choice.

Further afield, Enfidha in Tunisia, Marrakesh in Morocco and Tenerife in Spain are among the top spots for holidaymakers seeking guaranteed sunshine, offering average climates of around 23°C in April and accessible from the UK in around four hours.

Just in time for Easter, the airline has opened its 10th UK base at London Southend, offering up to 122 flights a week including services to Antalya, Pisa, Dalaman, and Tenerife, providing even more great value choice and connectivity from the UK.

Elsewhere across the airline’s unrivalled leisure network, flights are now operating on easyJet’s first Sub-Saharan route, to Sal in Cape Verde from London Gatwick, and Tbilisi in Georgia from London Luton.

In total 110 new easyJet routes are taking off this summer, including 44 from the UK, which is set to be the airline’s biggest ever summer with seven additional Airbus A320 family aircraft joining its UK-based fleet.

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

“Easter is one of our busiest times for travel for flights and package holidays, which sees millions of holidaymakers jetting off to enjoy some spring sunshine, hit the slopes or visit friends and family. This year will be no exception, with up to three million of them expected to fly with easyJet for our unrivalled choice of destinations across Europe and beyond.

 “As we kick off our biggest ever summer season, with over 1,000 routes including 110 new services launching across our network, we’re focused on providing great value and choice, always aiming to make travel easy for the 100 million customers we’ll fly this year and we can’t wait to welcome them on board.”

There are still great value fares to be had this Easter for under £50 to popular beach and city break destinations including Alicante, Malaga, Amsterdam, Faro, Prague, and Milan and for those with late-season snow on the agenda, to ski destinations including Geneva and Grenoble.

easyJet holidays has a vast selection of beach and city breaks available, starting from £248 per person with travel dates all the way up to October 2026.

easyJet serves 21 UK airports, offering 586 routes to 136 destinations from the UK to Europe and beyond. To discover more about easyJet’s UK network and to book, visit easyJet.com.

For further information, please contact the easyJet Press Office via medicentre.easyJet.com/contacts or on 01582 525252

Notes to editors

*flights one way per person including taxes

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 more than 100 million passengers in 2024. The airline has over 350 aircraft flying on over 1,000 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 nearly 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.

About easyJet holidays

easyJet holidays, which launched in 2019, is a leading package holiday provider which operates from the UK, Switzerland, Germany and France. The company took over 2.5 million customers on holiday in 2024. 

Named UK & Ireland Travel Company of the Year 2024, it offers great value beach and city holidays to over 7000 hotels, in more than 100 destinations across Europe and North Africa, directly through its website and through over 7000 travel agent partners. The ATOL-protected holidays can be secured with a deposit of just £60 per person, including flights and accommodation, as well as 23kg luggage and transfers on beach breaks. 

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. 

Winners of the Sustainable Future Award, easyJet holidays’ sustainability strategy, ‘Holiday Better’, focuses on three key pillars – create better holiday choices by making sustainable travel affordable and accessible to everyone; keep our holidays special by maximising the benefits and minimising the negative impacts of travel and tourism, and transform travel for everyone by embedding sustainability into business decisions and behaviours and driving meaningful change in the industry. The tour operator has partnered with UN Tourism 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 was named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work in 2023 and 2024