Bristol gets big chunk of easyJet expansion

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Users of Bristol Airport will be the big winners of easyJet's latest route expansion.

Five of the ten new routes announced today by the budget airline start from the west country location - already easyJet's biggest base outside of London.

Flights to La Rochelle, Marseille and Toulouse in France, as well as to Rijeka in Croatia and Krakow in Poland, will commence in late July.

The three times weekly service to Rijeka will begin on July 22 and marks easyJet's maiden venture to Croatia's third largest city. One-way tickets including taxes and charges begin at £25.99.

The new flights to La Rochelle also represent a first for easyJet, with tickets costing £20.99 when the four times weekly service kicks off on July 21.

easyJet will also start flights from Bristol to Krakow and Toulouse from July 21 and to Marseille from July 22. One-way tickets for the two French routes begin at £20.99 with Krakow on offer from £25.99.

The budget airline expects to carry 300,000 passengers on the new routes in the next twelve months. It now forecasts that it will handle three million passengers at Bristol in total, representing ten per cent of its total traffic.

But Bristol isn't the only airport set to prosper from easyJet's latest round of expansion, as new routes from Luton and Gatwick were also unveiled.

A four times weekly service from Gatwick to Split in Croatia will be launched on May 2, with one-way tickets starting at £25.99.

And Luton will get two new routes on June 29 - a daily service to Bordeaux and a four times weekly service to Rimini. One-way tickets cost from £25.99.

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