easyJet gears up for a record number of passengers from London Southend Airport this summer

easyJet celebrates flying 6 million passengers since launching operations in Southend seven years ago

LUTON, England, 2019-May-08 — /Travel PR News/ — easyJet, the largest airline at London Southend Airport, is gearing up to fly a record number of passengers from the airport this summer.  Throughout the summer the airline is expected to carry over 830,000 passengers – an increase of over 20% year on year – helped by new routes and aircraft introduced over the last year to Prague, Bordeaux and Dubrovnik and Pula in Croatia.

easyJet will also celebrate flying 6m passengers to and from the airport this summer since it launched operations from Southend over seven years ago.

Four brand new routes have joined the easyJet Southend network over the last year, bringing the total routes now available for passengers to 21 all served by the addition of an extra aircraft brought in this year.

easyJet now bases four aircraft at the airport supporting the provision of great value summer breaks or low-fared commutes for even more passengers. The additional aircraft will provide additional seats for customers looking to travel to and from Southend this summer.

Neil Slaven, Director of UK Market at easyJet, said:

“We are absolutely delighted to be celebrating a record year here at London Southend Airport. The addition of another aircraft and new routes this year is helping us to deliver long term, sustainable growth at the base providing passengers with an even greater range of convenient flights to a fantastic variety of destinations across our network – all with low fares and great service.

Glyn Jones, CEO Stobart Aviation, said:

“We have enjoyed an exceptional seven years, working in partnership with easyJet, providing a growing mix of both leisure and business destinations. With up to six trains an hour into London in just 45 minutes and our unique customer service levels, it’s no surprise that more and more people are choosing London Southend. There is currently much debate about future airport capacity in London. Our partnership demonstrates the very significant opportunities that are now being realised right now at London Southend. Our ambitions are closely aligned with easyJet’s plans to expand and grow, and we very much looking forward to developing our partnership further.”

To book flights and for more information about easyJet’s network from London Southend, visit www.easyJet.com.

*One way including taxes and based on two people travelling on the same booking.

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 carries more than 90 million passengers annually – around 15 million of which are travelling on business. easyJet flies over 317 aircraft on 1000 routes to 153 airports across 33 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 a number of local charities and also has a corporate partnership with UNICEF which has raised over £12m for the most vulnerable children since it was established in 2012.

The airline takes sustainability seriously and invests in the latest technology, operates efficiently and fills most of its seats. This means since 2000 easyJet has reduced the carbon emissions for each kilometre flow by a passenger by over 32% and is on track to meet its target of a 38% reduction by 2022.

Innovation is in easyJet’s DNA – from our launch over 20 years ago when we changed the way people fly to the present day where we lead the industry in digital, web, engineering and operational innovations to make travel more easy and affordable for our passengers.

For further information, please contact the easyJet Press Office on 01582 525252, log onto www.easyjet.com or follow @easyJet_Press

Source: easyJet

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