EasyJet reinforces routes and aircraft at Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport
EasyJet announced on Thursday that it will invest in the Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, with more airplanes, the creation of three new routes and the recovery of two others. This investment will boost capacity by 350,000 seats and create 70 direct jobs.
The airline will now have six airplanes parked at the airport, also enabling the opening of three new routes: Porto Santo, Madrid and Cologne. The first one (to Porto Santo) will be available from May 1st until the end of October, with two weekly frequencies, while the route to Cologne will be operated twice a week and the connection to Madrid will have five weekly frequencies, throughout the year, with both connections being available at the beginning of April. With a strategy for next summer in mind, the company also announced the reactivation of the routes to Ibiza and Palma de Mallorca.
In addition to the 15 airplanes based in Portugal, EasyJet has an additional capacity of 16 aircraft not based in Portugal (four of these in Porto).
With this reinforcement, the company also increases jobs to more than 520 people, of which 214 are based in Porto, as José Lopes, the company's general manager for Portugal, underlined in a press conference.
Celebrating the transport of 14 million passengers to Sá Carneiro Airport, where it has operated since 2007, the airline has had a 9% growth in the last seven months, compared to the pre-pandemic period, thus consolidating its position as the second airline to operate in Porto, where it opened a base in 2015 and currently has 23 connections to European airports in eight countries.
