• New winter services to Amsterdam, Malta and Paris will take off for the first time from October 2024, with packages also available from easyJet holidays

  • Seats from London Southend to ten destinations across Turkey, Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Italy and Malta are now on sale for departures from March 2025

  • Fares start from £21.99* and are available to book at easyJet.com and via the mobile app.

easyJet has announced the launch of three new winter routes from three UK airports and is putting seats on sale for ten new routes from London Southend Airport, which will take off alongside the opening of the airline’s newest UK base at the airport in summer 2025.

A new twice-weekly service from Southampton to Amsterdam and from Leeds Bradford to Paris Charles De Gaulle will take off for the first time on 28 October, while a twice-weekly route from London Luton to Malta will launch on 4 December. 

Three brand-new routes are also on sale from London Southend Airport to Reus and Almeria in Spain, and the popular Mediterranean island of Malta, with departures from March 2025. 

Earlier this year, easyJet announced the opening of a three-aircraft base at London Southend Airport, along with seven new package holiday destinations: Gran Canaria and Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Dalaman and Antalya in Turkey, Enfidha in Tunisia, Marrakech in Morocco and Pisa in Italy. Now, both flight-only seats and easyJet holidays packages are available to book for all ten destinations, with the first flights set to depart from 30 March 2025, bringing the total number of routes from London Southend to 17. 

Ali Gayward, easyJet's UK Country Manager, commented:

“We’re delighted to be launching even more new routes from the UK to a fantastic range of destinations, with over 44 new routes now available from this winter as well as ten routes from our new base at London Southend Airport, which we look forward to opening next year.

“Our continued growth and investment in the UK highlights the importance of this market and provides UK consumers with even more choice, with our customers choosing our flights and holidays for our trusted brand, unrivalled network and great value fares, and we look forward to welcoming even more of them onboard.”

easyJet serves 21 UK airports, offering nearly 600 routes to over 130 destinations from the UK to Europe and beyond. To discover more about easyJet’s UK network and to book, visit easyJet.com.

  • From 28 October 2024, flights from Southampton to Amsterdam will operate twice a week on Mondays and Fridays with fares now available from £23.99*

  • From 28 October 2024, flights from Leeds to Paris Charles de Gaulle will operate twice a week on Mondays and Fridays with fares now available from £23.99*

  • From 4 December 2024, flights from London Luton to Malta will operate twice a week on Wednesdays and Saturdays with fares now available from £35.99*

  • From 30 March 2025, flights from London Southend to Gran Canaria will operate three times a week on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays with fares now available from £34.99*

  • From 30 March 2025, flights from London Southend to Enfidha will operate three times a week on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays with fares now available from £34.13*

  • From 30 March 2025, flights from London Southend to Malta will operate four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays with fares now available from £36.99*

  • From 31 March 2025, flights from London Southend to Dalaman will operate three times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays with fares now available from £34.99*

  • From 31 March 2025, flights from London Southend to Pisa will operate twice a week on Mondays and Fridays with fares now available from £22.99*

  • From 1 April 2025, flights from London Southend to Antalya will operate twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays with fares now available from £37.99*

  • From 1 April 2025, flights from London Southend to Tenerife will operate three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with fares now available from £30.99*

  • From 1 April 2025, flights from London Southend to Marrakech will operate three times a week on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with fares now available from £30.99*

  • From 1 April 2025, flights from London Southend to Almeria will operate twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays with fares now available from £33.99*

  • From 1 April 2025, flights from London Southend to Reus will operate twice a week on Tuesdays and Saturdays with fares now available from £21.99*

Brand new package holidays on new routes are available to book with easyJet holidays at www.easyjet.com/en/holidays. All easyJet holidays packages include flights, hotel, 23kg luggage and transfers on beach holidays, all covered by Ultimate Flexibility, offering freedom to change a booking, a refund guarantee, and best price guarantee. Book with easyJet holidays (www.easyjet.com/en/holidays tel: 0330 365 5005).

  • easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 5* Numa Club Side in Antalya on an All Inclusive basis for £518 per person (with a free kids’ place) including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from London Southend on 3 June 2025

  • easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 4* GF Isabel in Tenerife on a Bed and Breakfast basis for £353 per person (with a free kids’ place) including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from London Southend on 20 May 2025

  • easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 3* Green Park Apartments in Dalaman on a Self Catering basis for £289 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from London Southend on 7 May 2025

  • easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 4* Gloria Palace San Agustin Thalasso & Hotel in Gran Canaria on a Bed & Breakfast basis for £498 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from London Southend on 18 June 2025

  • easyJet holidays offers three nights at the 5* Ryad Amiran and Spa in Marrakesh on a Room Only basis for £201 per person including flights from London Southend on 7 June 2025

  • easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 5* Hilton Skanes Monastir Beach Resort in Tunisia on an All Inclusive basis for £481 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from London Southend on 9 May 2025

  • easyJet holidays offers three nights at the 4* Grand Hotel Duomo in Pisa on a Bed & Breakfast basis for £327 per person including flights from London Southend on 20 June 2025

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 Notes to editors

*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.