UK airlines all set to increase flights to Greece

Monday, November 8, 2021

For December, airlines are slowly preparing themselves to offer hundreds of thousands of seats between the UK and Greece than in 2019. They expect to see a boom in overseas vacations as travel restrictions ease.

Jet2 and easyJet are the carriers that have increased their flight capacity scheduled ahead of the pandemic for 2022.

Jet2 explained that on sale between Greece and the UK, it has 1 million seats than it offered in 2019, while easyJet has plans to add 500,000 more seats into their capacity. Flight tickets to your schedule, subject to availability at airports.

“Having met most of the tour operators and airlines here in the UK. … … We are very, very optimistic about 2022, ”said Vasilis Kikilias, Greece’s Minister of Tourism, speaking to the Financial Times at the World Travel Market conference in London.

Kikilias also mentioned that in 2022, Greece expects 35 percent more tourists from the UK than this year, corresponding to a record high of around 3.6 million in 2019. He forecasts that the “sun, sea and sand” season will kick-start in March, much earlier than usual.

Agreements between airlines and the Greek government, as well as with the Ministry of Tourism, helping to secure airport seats for aircraft in exchange for inbound flight guarantees, points to the fact that the tourism industry in 2022 considers major returns from overseas travel..

Michael O’Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, explained that by next summer, he expects a full recovery when his airline will open more than 500 new routes across Europe.

“We expect very significant growth next year,” he said.

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