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Rosaleen Fenton & Emilia Bona

EasyJet announce six new European summer flight routes for summer

EasyJet has announced six new summer flight routes to a list of European holiday destinations.

The budget airline shared a list of new destinations including Zakynthos in Greece, Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands.

Mirror Online reports the new routes will begin operating next summer from London Luton Airport.

The announcement comes after a difficult few months for the travel industry as coronavirus lockdown measures grounded a number of commercial flights.

EasyJet also intends to make holidays more affordable next year by increasing the frequency of flights on offer across 11 of their existing routes.

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The full list of new summer routes is:

Zakynthos in Greece

Larnaca in Cyprus

Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands

Marrakesh in Morocco

Varna in Bulgaria

EasyJet is also increasing services to Rhodes, Heraklion, Thessaloniki, Tenerife, Krakow and Porto to seven flights a week.

Flights to Balearic favourite Palma in Majorca will rise by 30%, with 28 flights a week.

And the number of flights to Milan will triple - with 21 flights a week to choose from.

While these routes are available from next summer, holidays within the UK could return as soon as the beginning of July if the spread of coronavirus can be kept down, the Culture Secretary has said.

Oliver Dowden suggested in May that staycations may be permitted this summer.

He told the Downing Street press conference: "I would love to get the tourism sector up as quickly as we possibly can.

"We've set this very ambitious plan to try and get it up and running by the beginning of July."

The Government's target is July 4 to reopen the UK tourism sector.

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