On July 25, easyJet announced 13 new and returning routes, all of which will take off this winter. All are from the UK, which remains the pan-European airline’s most-served country, where its first flight was from, and where the Group’s headquarters is located. They were revealed by Sean Moulton on X.

Separately, easyJet, which has turned down offers to buy it, has unveiled three routes from its continental bases of Lyon, Milan Malpensa, and Nantes. The budget operator will fly from the two French cities to the increasingly popular Egyptian winter sun destination of Sharm el-Sheikh, while Milan will be linked to Nuremberg for Christmas markets. They follow 13 other winter services that were announced recently.

These 13 UK Routes Will Begin

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They involve nine UK airports and the Isle of Man Airport (IOM), which is in a British Crown Dependency rather than technically part of the UK. They are summarized below and shown on the interactive map that follows. Obviously, the airport pairs that revolve around Christmas markets will only be served for a short while. Most will end in early January 2027.

A whopping ten of the 13 additions have not previously seen easyJet’s frames. They are brand-new to the LCC’s network, which is always good to see. The return of the others comes after a reasonable absence, particularly Bristol International Airport to BUD. This link was last on easyJet’s map two decades ago, having started in 2004, when Hungary joined the EU.

When it was first served, the carrier had up to a daily service, although the frequency fell to four weekly flights in the final year. Things will be very different this time, as it’ll focus on Christmas markets. It’ll compete with the ultra-low-cost carrier Ryanair, whose year-round service has up to nine weekly departures.

Some Of The Routes Have Been Unserved For Years

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A handful of the upcoming markets, while not previously served by easyJet, were in the hands of one or more other carriers in the past. Cirium Diio data shows that MAN to Nuremberg was last served by Ryanair in March 2019. The IOM last had scheduled flights to Geneva, which is a gateway for skiing resorts, in 2020, when the now-defunct Flybe operated using the Dash 8-Q400. Flybe was once dominant in the IOM.

Other routes previously served include LGW to Nuremberg, which British Airways ended in April 2023. Before that, the now-defunct German carrier airberlin served the airport pair between 2011 and 2013, albeit in a regular way: it had up to two daily flights. BA now has winter-only flights to Nuremberg from London Heathrow Airport (LHR). Elsewhere, Ryanair flew from BFS to Budapest until early 2026. That market was previously in Aer Lingus’ network in 2008, when BFS was a base.

Four Of The Airport Pairs Are Brand-New

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The most notable additions are the airport pairs that have not previously had any scheduled flights at all. There are four of them: LTN to RBA (which serves the Moroccan capital) and Nuremberg, along with EDI to Tromsø (famous for the Northern Lights and snowy activities) and SEN to Sharm el-Sheikh. Rabat, Nuremberg, and Sharm el-Sheikh have flights from other London airports.

At 2,073 nautical miles (3,839 km) each way, SEN to Sharm el-Sheikh will be the Essex airport’s new longest scheduled route, at least in the past 22 years and possibly ever. Until now, the longest link was Tenerife South, which covers 22% less distance. Service to Tenerife South existed between 2013 and 2020, and again from 2025. easyJet is now SEN’s only scheduled carrier.