easyJet – 7 new routes including Budapest, Basel and Ljubljana!!!!

AH, finally things are looking up a bit here at BSL…

The times for the STN flight could probably be improved (no chance of popping back to Parkhead for the day with those times…), but I’ll finally have the chance to go on a loco day trip… 😀 Berlin, here I come.

Added to the news that MASkargo (Malayasia Airlines’ Cargo service) is to introduce a twice weekly 747-200F service [Sydney-Kuala Lumpur-Dubai-Manchester-Basel-Dubai-Kuala Lumpur-Sydney], there should be plenty of interesting stuff about.

Incidentally, easyjet today announced yet another new base, at Dortmund.

easyJet today announced that it is establishing Dortmund International Airport as its next European base. As part of the airline’s expansion plans for Germany the airline will introduce eight routes, with three aircraft operating from Dortmund.

easyJet today confirmed six of the routes, and the remaining two will be announced shortly.

Europe’s leading low cost airline will operate twice-daily services to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) and London Luton Airport, and daily services to Nice, Palma (Majorca), Alicante, and Rome (Ciampino). One-way fares will start at EUR 19 including all taxes and charges.

Flights will commence at the end of May 2004 and will be available for sale later today, here on 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.

Two new routes, from Berlin Schönefeld to Basel and Budapest were also announced today.

The twice-daily service to Basel will start on 20 May 2004, and the daily service to Budapest commences on 17 June 2004. One way fares for both routes start from EUR 25.99 (EUR 51.98 return including taxes and charges), representing a huge saving for customers compared to the high fares charged by the traditional airlines.

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.”

I remember seeing in a magazine about 2 years ago saying that easyJet wanted to enter the Larnaca and Paphos markets as well as Jersey, Oslo, Berlin and Stockholm. With the new base at Berlin maybe these other destinations could be served by easyJet in the future?

Regards
dan777

Even though Cyprus may be a little longer than Athens i think they would make alot of money from Cyprus they could even use that as a base to commences flights to north africa and the middle east!

My reckoning was wrong then!

Originally posted by Mark L
Cyprus is quite a bit further than Athens really. It is stretching it with a fully loaded B737-700 I reckon…

Not quite! I flew all the way from Gatwick-Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt on a fully laiden Astraeus 737-700 2 years ago.

Cyprus is quite a bit further than Athens really. It is stretching it with a fully loaded B737-700 I reckon…

Isnt that much further than Athens, which they already fly to. I was thinking about Cyprus earlier… Maybe Ryanair could market it as ‘Athens East’?:D

CYprus is a bit far isnt it for easyJet 3 hours 30mins from Luton roughly.

why arent they flying to cyprus then or poland as they ae about to join the EU aswell

easyJet are also going to serve Basel and Budapest from their new Berlin Schoenefeld base. This will increase the amount of destinations served to 13 from SXF – Athens, Barcelona, Basel, Bristol, Budapest, Copenhagen, Liverpool, London Luton, Naples, Newcastle, Nice, Palma and Paris Orly.

Berlin Schoenefeld – Basel

EZY4533 07:20 – 08:55 – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
EZY4537 18:25 – 20:00 – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Basel – Berlin Schoenefeld

EZY4534 09:15 – 10:55 – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
EZY4538 20:20 – 21:55 – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Berlin Schoenefeld – Budapest

EZY4585 11:15 – 12:50 – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Budapest – Berlin Schoenefeld

EZY4586 13:15 – 14:50 – 1,2,3,4,5,6,7

Regards
dan777

Yes very good news for these new destinations, and for me down here at Stansted. Although I doubt I’ll notice much of a difference down here at STN, it’s about time they set-up some new routes.

Great to see some new untapped destinations offered by Easyjet. Hopefully as more countries join the EU, more routes will be avaliable. Shame they dont fly from LBA 🙁

tenthije, AMS would be a good route from BFS if they didnt do one flight a day. Sh*te for spotting

Originally posted by andrewm
easyJet arnt that good at recognising a good thing as we dont any any european routes apart from Ams!

In that case Easyjet is very good at recognising good things. After all, once you have been to AMS, you don’t want to go anywhere else! 😀

easyJet arnt that good at recognising a good thing as we dont any any european routes apart from Ams!

These are going to do very well IMHO. Prague will be seeing me in the summer for certain!

great to see some of these places getting a network of flights now they are within the EU. If companies such as Easy recognise this and bring more flights to the UK, especially up North then the tourism economy of places such as Slovenia and Hungary could get a massive boost!