Big Growth: easyJet Adds 16 Routes From 8 UK Airports

The UK is easyJet’s home country. It was where it first started flying three decades ago. According to Cirium Diio, the airline has more UK flights than any other airline. It is comfortably the nation’s top domestic operator and short-haul international carrier. Over a third of its flights touch the country.

easyJet has added 16 new and returning UK routes. They are from eight airports, including bases at Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, London Southend, Manchester, and Newcastle (base reopens next year). London Stansted, which was formerly a base, gets another route. Some of the launches are bound to make my celebratory Weekly Routes article (see the most recent edition).

easyJet Adds These UK Routes

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Based on IATA slot seasons, northern carriers, including easyJet, will switch to summer schedules on March 29. This is why several of the coming airport pairs begin on or around that date. However, most of the additions will take off later in the summer, when demand picks up and fares are higher, both of which are critical to better performance. However, some routes start in early August, which is quite late, and after children break up from school.

Network analysis indicates that over half of the upcoming routes have not previously been served by easyJet. Of those that are coming back, the airline would have used its prior performance data and related it to changes to the market landscape, along with aircraft availability, to see if it was worth their returning. Nine of the additions will have no head-to-head airport-level competition with another carrier, but that’ll be different at the city level.

Only 1 Route Won’t Use UK-Based Aircraft

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As Stansted is no longer a base, easyJet’s upcoming service to CDG will use Paris-based equipment and crew. On Thursdays, the carrier will depart from France at 3:20 pm and arrive home at 6:10 pm local time. On Sundays, flights leave France’s busiest airport at 9:30 am and arrive back at 12:20 pm. While Sunday’s schedule is a bit early, it is relatively well-timed for a long weekend in Paris or London.

Despite being just 194 nautical miles (359 km), it will be easyJet’s sixth-shortest airport pair from the UK to continental Europe next year. Only Southend-Amsterdam, Gatwick-CDG, Stansted-Amsterdam, Southend-CDG, and Luton-Amsterdam will cover less ground. Several others—like Gatwick-Rennes and Southampton-Orly—are nearly neck-and-neck.

Various airlines have served Stansted-CDG over the years. When easyJet returns to the market after a six-year gap, it’ll become the carrier’s fourth route from the broad London area to the French capital. It’ll coexist with flights from Gatwick, Luton, and Southend to CDG, with up to 10 daily departures.

When all airlines are included, booking data shows that more than 1.6 million passengers flew between London and Paris in the 12 months to September 2025 (almost 4,400 daily). They did not go elsewhere. While fast trains have reduced that volume significantly in the past few decades, it is still a substantial point-to-point market.

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2 Of The 16 Routes Have Not Been Served Before (At Least Not In 20 Years)

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Analysis of data from the past two decades indicates that Bristol-Bari and Glasgow Airport-Pisa have not had nonstop flights before. However, Ryanair has flown between Prestwick and Pisa since 2005. In the past two decades, the ultra-low-cost carrier’s offering has become much more seasonal and with fewer departures in the peak season.

When all airlines are included, Bristol will now have flights to 12 Italian airports next year, more than double Glasgow Airport’s five. Glasgow will remain Scotland’s second-busiest airport, out of three, for services to the Southern European nation, albeit with less than a quarter of the total market. It is nearly all about Edinburgh.