Easjyet grows in Italy with new slots on Milan Linate and Rome Fiumicino | EUROtoday

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Growth of 9% to 18 million passengers in Italy in 2024 with 33 plane primarily based, another in Naples, 21 airports and 234 routes. This is the {photograph} of easyJet in Italy, the British low-cost airline that has simply been awarded the slots on the Milan Linate and Rome Fiumicino airports that Lufthansa and Ita Airways needed to cede in settlement with the European Commission. By advantage of those agreements, the service will base 8 new planes in Italy (5 in Linate and three in Rome) ranging from the subsequent summer season season which begins on March 30, however for 3 seasons the settlement offers for 3 Ita Airways planes for use (with the emblem of the previous Italian flag service) on the Milan airport: «In actuality our intention is to make use of them just for one season so from subsequent yr we’ll base all easyJet planes» mentioned Lorenzo Lagorio, nation supervisor for Italy in course of a press convention. «Five airplanes as an funding on the Italian market (8 from subsequent yr, ed.) is so much, particularly in mild of the truth that subsequent yr we’ll go from 347 to 356 airplanes as a bunch in Europe. This makes us perceive how vital Italy is, which turns into easyJet’s second market after the United Kingdom and forward of France”, added the manager.

The network

With the new slots, the carrier’s network expands with 27 new routes of which 16 will be operated from the new Milan Linate base, increasing the network to 21 routes to 12 countries, thus becoming the second carrier of the Milanese airport, and five new routes from Rome Fiumicino for a total of 16 to 5 countries. All this will lead to an increase in capacity of +145% and +35% respectively. With five aircraft based at Linate and 120 employees, the carrier will fly to Lisbon, Barcelona, ​​Birmingham, Luxembourg, Manchester, Edinburgh, Oslo, Vienna and Copenhagen. From Rome Fiumicino with 3 planes and around 130 employees, the new connections will be operated towards Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, Zurich and Brussels.

Milan Malpensa remains easyJet’s main hub with 22 planes and 74 routes which will allow it to offer 6.3 million seats in summer 2025, Naples will have 8 planes and 52 routes to which the Salerno base will be added from this year. Among the new destinations from Malpensa, there are Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Paris Orly and Evenes – Lofoten. The connections from Malpensa to Cairo and Tromsø and those from Naples to Prague and Alicante, among the new features of this year’s winter season, will also be operated during the summer. From Palermo we will fly to Bristol (UK) and from Lamezia Terme to Nice.

Among the exits from the Italian easyJet network are the airports of Bergamo Orio al Serio (“We wish to give attention to Linate, however we hope to return quickly,” said Lagorio), Bologna (replaced with Rimini), Comiso and Ancona. The Venice base where flights remain is also closed.

The expansion of the offer

In whole there might be over 14 million seats out there in easyJet’s 2025 summer season season in Italy, for a complete of over 250 routes to and from 20 Italian airports, 4 bases (Milan Malpensa, Milan Linate, Rome Fiumicino and Naples) on which 38 will function primarily based plane and over 1500 staff.