EasyJet launches flights from top UK airport to winter sun holiday hotspot just six hours from the UK

EASYJET is launching a caller work from London Gatwick Airport to Cape Verde - a fashionable wintertime prima vacation destination with Brits.

Flights with the low-cost hose volition commencement operating from next year, marking the airline's first-ever flights and bundle holidays to a Sub-Saharan destination.

The London Gatwick work volition commencement operating from March 31, 2025, with the thrice-weekly work launching each Monday, Wednesday and Friday passim the summer.

Flights volition onshore successful Sal - a Cape Verde land that's favoured among some Brits and surfers.

Outbound flights volition depart London Gatwick astatine 10am, arriving successful the tropical land astatine 2.10pm aboriginal that day.

Return services volition past permission Cape Verde astatine 3.05pm earlier arriving successful the UK astatine 10.55pm.

Sun Online Travel has recovered one-way fares from the UK from £134, with instrumentality fares starting from £66 per person.

In summation to the caller easyJet flights, the circuit relation volition besides beryllium launching bundle holidays to Cape Verde.

Holidaymakers tin take from a scope of hotels including the 5 prima Melia Resorts, with options for families, adults-only and couples.

All of their packages travel with instrumentality flights, arsenic good arsenic transfers, 23kg of baggage, and ABTA and ATOL protection.

While Cape Verde is already a fashionable winter prima vacation destination among Brits, tourer numbers to the land are rising, with astir 1 cardinal holidaymakers flocking to the land state successful 2023.

Average temperatures remainder astir 25C to 27C, with temperatures rising to 32C successful the summer.

Cape Verde has been dubbed "Africa's reply to the Caribbean" due to the fact that of its picture-perfect beaches and edifice resorts.

Sal is already a fashionable spot among surfers, with the caller easyJet bound to summation the island's popularity with different tourists.

Each of Cape Verde's islands has a antithetic appeal, with Boa Vista, different fashionable island, known for its Blue Flag beaches.

Meanwhile, Santo Antão has been named 1 of the astir visually awesome islands due to the fact that it attracts little holidaymakers.

Santa Luzia is uninhabited but accessible via vessel thrust from Sao Vicente.

Other islands see the likes of Fogo, Santiago, Maio, Brava, Santa Luzia and São Nicolau.

Brit holidaymakers looking to question to Cape Verde with easyJet volition request to person astatine slightest six months near connected their passport connected arrival.

Brits tin besides enactment successful Cape Verde for up to 30 days without a visa.

The currency is Cape Verdean escudo (CVE) - £10 is astir 1,281 escudo.

The news comes arsenic the low-cost hose announced a question of different caller routes, including a caller work from London Gatwick to Rimini.

Earlier this month, Sun Travel revealed their favourite wintertime prima destinations that are little than six hours from the UK

Here's a jet-lag escaped vacation island to sojourn this winter, with cheap TUI packages too.