Birmingham and London Southend are easyJet's new routes from Faro, for the year 2022. The airline, which will reopen its base next Sunday, March 27, now has 19 connections from the Algarve capital.
To mark the reopening of the base, which opened in the summer of 2021, the airline invited more than 40 preschool children from the Pechão Kindergarten, Olhão, to visit one of its planes at the airport.
“With enthusiasm and curiosity, the students had the opportunity to be with one of the company's pilots and experience the atmosphere lived on board and in the cockpit”, highlights easyJet.
The base, which has four planes, one more than last year, will operate until the end of October, which allows it to have a total capacity of 1,67 million seats.
«In addition to the four aircraft based, the company has additional capacity corresponding to six non-based aircraft, with the intention of increasing its capacity by about 93% compared to the summer of 2021», guarantees the company.
easyJet now has connections from Faro, to Amsterdam, Basel, Belfast, Berlin Brandenburg, Birmingham, Bordeaux, Bristol, Geneva, Glasgow, Liverpool, London Gatwick, London Luton, London Southend, Lyon, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Nantes, Paris Charles de Gaulle and Paris Orly.
José Lopes, Managing Director of easyJet Portugal, guarantees that “we are very excited to announce the reopening of the Faro. This was one of the most important investments we made last year in Portugal and contributed significantly to the recovery of the economy and tourism in the Algarve region. In addition, this movement gave rise to more than 130 direct contracts, increasing local employability».
The official says he hopes to «continue to reinforce our offer, providing our customers with more possibilities to travel, whether for work or leisure».
Being the first reopening of the base, “it made perfect sense to mark it in a different way. Over the last year, we have visited schools and made the piloting profession known, demonstrating that it is for everyone. This time, we decided to reverse the initiative and bring the children to the airport, since many of them have never had the opportunity to get on a plane and are very curious to know more about how a cockpit works», concludes José Lopes.
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