EasyJet to launch flights to Spain, Greece and Portugal from July 1
EASYJET has announced it will restart flights to Europe from July 1.
Tourist favourites including the Canaries, Greece and Portugal will be back on the cards from next week.
The low-cost airline has already restarted domestic flights within the UK, with plans for international flights next month.
Their first flight since the pandemic took off on June 15 from London Gatwick to Glasgow, with Sun Online's Lisa Minot on board.
The new flight schedule will include routes from 14 airports across the UK, including London airports as well as regional airports such as Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Newcastle, and Manchester.
Other destinations on the cards for Brits include France, Italy, Croatia and the Balearics.
Robert Carey, Chief Commercial and Strategy Officer commented: "We are really pleased to be relaunching even more of our flights from 1 July and starting to get customers away on their much-needed summer holidays."
Around 50 per cent of the airline's 1,022 routes will fly in July, increasing to around 75 per cent in August, although this will be with a lower frequency of flights of around 30 per cent.
Fares are already proving popular - a number of routes to Cyprus next month have already sold out, according to local media, while nearly all Bristol to Majorca flights are sold out .
EasyJet has also announced the new safety measures which will be enforced when passengers board again.
New safety measures include:
- Enhanced aircraft disinfection for easyJet aircraft
- Customers, cabin and ground crew will be required to wear masks
- There will also initially be no food service onboard flights
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EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren previously said measures will stay in place and they will be modified depending on the situation.
He said: "We will continue to closely monitor the situation across Europe so that when more restrictions are lifted the schedule will continue to build over time to match demand while also ensuring we are operating efficiently and on routes that our customers want to fly.
"The safety and wellbeing of our customers and crew remains our highest priority which is why we are implementing a number of measures enhancing safety at each part of the journey from disinfecting the aircraft to requiring customers and crew to wear masks."