easyJet – new base at Dortmund!!!

After yesterday’s announcement of 9 new routes, easyJet have today announced details of their new base: Dortmund in Germany!!

As part of the airlines expansion plans for Germany, the airline will introduce 8 routes with 3 aircraft operating from Dortmund.

easyJet today confirmed 6 of the routes with the remaining 2 announced shortly:

Paris Charles De Gaulle – Twice Daily
London Luton – Twice Daily
Nice – Daily
Palma – Daily
Alicante – Daily
Rome Ciampino – Daily

Flights will commence at the end of May 2004 and will be available for sale later today, here on http://www.easyJet.com.

Dortmund is the gateway to the vast and wealthy Rhine/Ruhr industrial catchment – representing a market with huge inbound and outbound potential: two million people visited the city of Essen alone last year. In total, some 11 million people live within 60 minute’s drive-time of the airport – an area that also includes the major cities of Essen and Düsseldorf and is roughly the same population as London. GDP per head at EUR 25,000 is significantly ahead of the European average and more than one-fifth of all Germany’s GDP comes from the area.

These new services increase the total number of easyJet routes to 145, from 43 major airports throughout Europe, including 13 bases.

Ray Webster, said:

“It was only a couple of months ago that we announced our intention to significantly enter the German market with a substantial base of operation at Berlin. Today’s announcement further strengthens our position in Germany – particularly in the vast and wealthy industrial heartland of the Rhine/Ruhr valley with its massive catchment area.

“This is yet another step in the planned growth of easyJet and the fact that we can start eight new routes using three aircraft by opening up a single new airport underlines why we put so much emphasis on network density and the joining-the-dots element of our growth strategy.”

easyJet sure is expanding fast aren’t they!!! Airliner world also reported after the Berlin base that 2 more were to be set up this year and there are rumors around saying the next base will either be Cologne/Bonn or Copenhagen!

Looks like Air Berlin is to receive some competition on some routes!

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dan777