EasyJet launches longest ever route from England to a ‘stunning’ island

Ever fancied a far-flung flight without breaking the bank? One fund hose is making it imaginable with the motorboat of its longest-ever way from England. 

EasyJet has announced it volition run flights betwixt Gatwick Airport successful West Sussex and the land of Sal successful Cape Verde adjacent year. 

The region of 2,346 nautical miles exceeds the carrier’s existent longest way serving an English airdrome betwixt Manchester and the Egyptian formation edifice municipality of Hurghada.

However, EasyJet’s longest way crossed its full web volition stay betwixt Belfast and Hurghada – 2,400 nautical miles. 

Flights volition instrumentality disconnected from March 31, 2025, operating 3 times a week connected Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays passim the summertime season.

Cape Verde volition go EasyJet’s first-ever destination successful Sub-Saharan Africa, and the institution is besides offering bundle holidays there.

Located disconnected the seashore of West Africa, Sal boasts year-round sunshine, and offers ‘another far-flung prime for UK customers readying their summertime holidays’.

It’s known for its achromatic sandy beaches and azure water, with its Praia de Santa Maria rated the apical attraction connected Tripadvisor.

One reviewer described it arsenic an ‘absolutely stunning formation with turquoise lukewarm waters you tin aquatics in’, portion different wrote: ‘The waters are crystal clear, the soil achromatic and cleanable and determination is nary debris, seaweed oregon plastics.’

The way is among 26 different caller summertime routes announced by EasyJet, 21 of which volition service the UK.

Alongside Cape Verde, the hose volition tally flights to Rimini successful Italy, different marque caller destination. It’ll besides beryllium increasing its web astatine London Luton, with routes to the Andalusian superior Almeria successful Spain and Funchal successful Madeira.

Ali Gayward, EasyJet UK state manager, said: ‘We’re arrogant to beryllium releasing specified an unthinkable scope of caller routes and bundle holidays, providing much prime for customers to sojourn much of the places they emotion crossed Europe and to acquisition immoderate unthinkable caller destinations.

‘This includes a milestone way for EasyJet to beauteous Cape Verde, our archetypal ever sub-Saharan service.

‘Our continued maturation and concern successful the UK and the connectivity we connection our customers highlights the value of the marketplace for us, wherever this twelvemonth we operated much flights than ever before. 

‘So with 21 caller services present disposable from 10 airports crossed the UK, our flights and holidays are disposable to adjacent much caller destinations adjacent summer, providing customers with adjacent much fantastic choices and large value.’

It follows Wizz Air’s announcement of its longest-ever way from Gatwick Airport to Saudia Arabia. 

The fund hose announced the 3,000-mile way successful September, with flights acceptable to motorboat from the West Sussex airdrome to the Saudi larboard metropolis of Jeddah astatine the extremity of 2025.

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