easyJet adds Belfast routes
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easyJet has announced it will fly between Belfast International Airport to Bordeaux and Jersey next year.
The new routes signal the 15th anniversary of the airline operating from the Northern Ireland airport, where is has since carried more than 32 million passengers. easyJet staged a water arch arrival for its aircraft at the airport today to mark the occasion, with passengers handed cakes and Bordeaux wine.
“Belfast was one of our first bases outside Luton and we look forward to celebrating many more anniversaries here,” said easyJet’s Ali Gayward.
Bookings for the new routes will open up next month. The airline has six aircraft and more than 200 crew and pilots based at the airport.
“Since their first flight from Belfast International Airport in 1998, easyJet have grown rapidly and now carry more passengers into and out of Northern Ireland than any other airline,” revealed John Doran, managing director at Belfast International Airport.
“One of the main reasons for their success is that easyJet provide low fares to the destinations to which both business and leisure passengers want to travel. It was not uncommon in the mid-nineties to be charged fares of over GBP300 to travel between Northern Ireland and significant UK cities such as Edinburgh, Liverpool and Bristol. easyJet singularly changed all of that, as well as adding direct access to European cities from Belfast, and for that alone the Northern Ireland public owe them a huge debt of gratitude,” he added.
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