Budget airline Wizz Air will offer a range of new routes for UK sunseekers amid hope of an end to travel restrictions.
The carrier has taken over 15 daily slots from Norwegian Air Shuttle at Gatwick, with Wizz Air basing four extra planes at the airport.
New routes have been confirmed to 14 destinations including Faro, Palma de Mallorca, Tel Aviv and Mykonos, along with services from Milan, Rome, Vienna and Naples, among others, operated by Wizz Air Hungary.
The new flights will launch in March as the company hopes to see a substantial return of passengers when the latest wave of the pandemic subsides.
It is hoped that nations will gradually begin to relax travel and testing rules in the coming weeks after months of strict curbs for passengers.
Wizz Air announced 2.6 million passengers booked flights during December despite the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus putting many off travelling over the festive period.
Bosses said this was a near-threefold increase on the 666,000 passengers it flew in the same month a year ago, creating a load factor on its planes of 75.4 per cent compared with 56.1 per cent in December 2020.
It meant the airline flew 21.7 million passengers in total in 2021 – up 30 per cent on the 16.7 million flown in 2020 during a year of numerous travel restrictions.
As part of environmental rules, Wizz Air also revealed its CO2 emissions levels, with 277,000 tonnes emitted during the month, although this was down per passenger from 85.6 grams per kilometre to 63.8 grams per kilometre.
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