• easyJet has put 26 new routes on sale today for next summer including 21 from the UK

  • New services include easyJet’s first ever Sub-Saharan service to Cape Verde from the UK

  • Airline’s unrivalled European short-haul network now offers over 1000 routes to over 160 airports across 37 countries, providing customers with more choice and great value

  • Seats are now on sale on easyJet.com and via the mobile app with fares starting from £26.99* and thousands more package holidays are now available

easyJet has today announced the launch of 26 new routes for summer 2025 including 21 from ten UK airports with seats now on sale, including its first ever flights and package holidays to the island of Sal in Cape Verde from the UK.

Cape Verde will become the first ever Sub-Saharan destination easyJet has flown to in its history from the UK, when it takes off from London Gatwick airport next summer.

Inaugural flights to Cape Verde will take off on 31st March 2025 and operate three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the summer season. Located off the west coast of Africa, the tropical islands are the latest destination added to the airline’s growing network, offering another far-flung choice for UK customers planning their summer holidays.

Leading tour operator, easyJet holidays, is launching brilliant package holidays at unbeatable value to the fantastic beach destination for the first time ever. The holiday company is offering a range of hotels, including a variety of 5* Melia resorts, with options for families, adults-only, couples, and more.

All easyJet holidays packages to Cape Verde include flights, hotel, 23kg luggage and transfers, all covered by its Ultimate Flexibility, offering freedom to change a booking, a refund guarantee, and best price guarantee. 

easyJet will also offer flights this summer to another brand new destination, Rimini in Italy, alongside Cape Verde and elsewhere in the south east, easyJet is growing its network at London Luton with routes to the Andalusian capital Almeria in Spain and Funchal in Madeira.

Five new routes are now on sale from Manchester to Izmir, Kalamata, Larnaca, Madrid and Rome. Meanwhile, the network at easyJet’s newest UK base at Birmingham airport continues to grow with the addition of two new services to Gran Canaria and Malta. The airline will also now serve Leeds Bradford airport with two new Spanish routes to Malaga and Palma. 

The airline is providing customers in Scotland with more choice for the summer with new flights to North African destinations of Enfidha in Tunisia and Marrakech from Edinburgh next summer for the first time, alongside flights to Olbia on the popular Italian island of Sardinia. While two new routes will take off from Glasgow to Antalya in Turkey and Reus in Spain. A route to Reus will also be served by a twice weekly service from Belfast International Airport. 

The launch of these new routes means thousands more package holidays available via easyJet holidays, currently offering over 70 destinations across beach and city breaks, all at unbeatable value available right up until 31 October 2026.

Ali Gayward, easyJet UK Country Manager, said:

“We’re proud to be releasing such an incredible range of new routes and package holidays today, providing more choice for customers to visit more of the places they love across Europe and to experience some incredible new destinations. This includes a milestone route for easyJet to beautiful Cape Verde, our first ever sub-saharan service.

“Our continued growth and investment in the UK and the connectivity we offer our customers highlights the importance of the market for us, where this year we operated more flying than ever before.

“So with 21 new services now available from ten airports across the UK, our flights and holidays are available to even more new destinations next summer, providing customers with even more fantastic choice and great value.”

Holidaymakers looking for inspiration can use easyJet's Low Fare Finder on easyJet.com to search for the lowest fares on easyJet's entire network, all in one place, allowing them to plan their next holiday at a bargain price. 

easyJet serves 21 UK airports, offering 584 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.

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Notes to editors

Flights on 21 new routes from the UK are now available to book at easyJet.com and via the mobile app:

  • London Gatwick to Sal in Cape Verde flights will operate three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 31st March with fares from £131.99

  • London Gatwick to Rimini in Italy flights will operate twice a week on Wednesdays and Sundays from 16th  April with fares from £46.99*

  • London Luton to Almeria flights will operate twice a week on Wednesdays and Sundays from 1st June with fares from £35.99*

  • London Luton to Funchal flights will operate twice a week on Wednesdays and Sundays from 1st June with fares from £58.99*

  • Manchester to Izmir flights will operate twice a week on Mondays and Fridays from 23rd June  November with fares from £35.99.*

  • Manchester to Madrid will operate three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 23rd June with fares from £35.99*

  • Manchester to Kalamata flights will operate twice a week on Tuedays and Saturdays from 24th  June with fares from £35.99*

  • Manchester to Larnaca  will operate twice a week on Wednesdays and Sundays from 25th June with fares from £43.99*

  • Manchester to Rennes operate twice a week on Wednesdays and Sundays from 25 June with fares from £26.99*

  • Birmingham to Gran Canaria flights will operate twice a week on Mondays and Fridays from 2nd May with fares from £40.99*

  • Birmingham to Malta flights will operate twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 3rd June with fares from £40.99*

  • Edinburgh to Enfidha flights will operate twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 3rd May with fares from £56.99*

  • Edinburgh to Olbia flights will operate twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays from 1st May with fares from £32.99*

  • Edinburgh to Marrakech flights will operate twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays from 1st May with fares from £35.99*

  • Liverpool to Split flights will operate twice a week on Mondays and Fridays from 9th June with fares from £34.99*

  • Newcastle to Malaga flights will operate twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays from 31st March with fares from £34.99*

  • Glasgow to Antalya flights will operate twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 4th June with fares from £68.99*

  • Glasgow to Reus flights will operate twice a week on Mondays and Fridays from 2nd June with fares from £34.99*

  • Belfast to Reus flights will operate twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 5th April with fares from £37.99*

  • Leeds Bradford to Malaga will operate once a week on Wednesdays 2nd April with fares from £37.99*

  • Leeds Bradford to Palma will operate once a week on Wednesdays 2nd April with fares from £26.99*

Book with easyJet holidays (www.easyjet.com/en/holidays tel: 0330 365 5005)

  • easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 5* Melia Tortuga Beach Resort & Spa on an All Inclusive basis for £780 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from London Gatwick airport on 15 May 2025.

 

  • easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 5* Melia Llana on an All Inclusive basis for £1015 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from London Gatwick airport on 26 November 2025.

 

  • easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 5* Melia Dunas Beach Resort & Spa on an All Inclusive basis for £932 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from London Gatwick airport on 4 June 2025.

*Flights one way per person including taxes

About easyJet

easyJet is Europe’s leading airline 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 82 million passengers in 2023 with more than 11.3 million travelling for business. The airline has over 300 aircraft flying on nearly 1000 routes to more than 155 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 eight 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 nearly £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 which is 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.   

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 one of the major players in the tour operator industry, having taken almost 2 million people away in 2023. It 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. 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 also started operating from Switzerland, France and Germany.

Winners of the Sustainable Future Award at the Globe Travel Awards, easyJet holidays’ sustainability strategy,‘Holiday Better’, focuses 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 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 has been named one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work2023 and 2024, as well as being named one of the Best Workplaces in Travel 2023.