Major airline to launch England's longest flight to stunning African destination

EasyJet is acceptable to motorboat its longest flight from England and it volition beryllium to a stunning African island.

The caller way volition link London’s Gatwick Airport with Sal successful Cape Verde.

The archetypal formation aims to depart connected March 31, 2025, and volition instrumentality astir six hours.

At a region of 2,332 nautical miles, the way surpasses the airline’s existent longest work successful England from Manchester to Hurghada successful Egypt, which covers 2,240 nautical miles.

It volition besides beryllium EasyJet’s archetypal task into sub-Saharan Africa.

Nonetheless, the airline’s longest way crossed its full web remains Belfast to Hurghada, astatine 2,400 nautical miles.

The flights from Gatwick to Sal volition beryllium scheduled 3 times a week and volition run connected A320neo aircraft.

EasyJet’s UK state manager, Ali Gayward, 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 love.

“This includes a milestone way for easyJet to beauteous Cape Verde, our first-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.”

Sal Island is celebrated for its year-round lukewarm weather, aureate beaches and turquoise waters.

The main edifice country called Santa Maria has plentifulness to connection with shops, restaurants and beachfront bars each wrong walking region of section hotels.

Visitors tin soak up the sun, snorkel, oregon bask a refreshing portion by the shore, with plentifulness of abstraction to unbend connected the beach.

The land besides has galore attractions beyond the beach, including the brackish flats astatine Pedra de Lume, wherever visitors tin interval effortlessly successful the salty waters.

What’s more, anyone who loves quality volition bask the Blue Eye, which is simply a earthy lava stone excavation that glows agleam turquoise astatine definite times of the day.

Birdwatching is different highlight, with taxon similar frigatebirds, grey herons and greenshanks often spotted crossed the island.

And for nightlife, a marque caller Casino Royal opened precocious meaning determination is plentifulness to bash aft sunset.