HIGH FIVE

• Flights launch from Birmingham Airport to five destinations across Europe and North Africa
• Seats are available to book at easyJet.com and via the mobile app with great value fares starting from just £14.99*
• Package holidays with easyJet holidays starting from £169 per person

easyJet has celebrated a ‘high five’ this week with the launch its first flights and package holidays from Birmingham Airport to Marrakesh, Reykjavik, Hurghada, Prague and Krakow.

The fantastic five now provide even more convenient connections at great value fares for travellers across the Midlands.

Flights took off from Birmingham to Marrakesh on 6 November and are now operating twice a week on Wednesdays and Sundays throughout winter. This was followed by a new service to Reykjavik in Iceland which launched yesterday on 12 November and is now operating on Tuesdays and Saturdays throughout winter.

Today, easyJet flights also took off to Hurghada, easyJet’s second Egyptian destination from Birmingham, and will fly for the first time this afternoon to Prague, both operating on Wednesdays throughout winter with the addition of a second weekly flight on Sundays for the Prague route.

And on Friday this week, easyJet will launch its new service to historic Krakow in Poland which will operate up to seven days a week, year-round.

Great value seats are now available to book from just £14.99* on easyJet.com and via the mobile app. 

The introduction of these five new routes shows the continuing strong demand from easyJet customers in the Midlands, offering even greater choice and more convenient connections to popular destinations.

Since easyJet opened its new base at Birmingham Airport in March 2024, the airline has launched 22 new routes meaning 33 routes are now available from Birmingham International to top destinations across Europe.

Thousands more package holidays are available with easyJet holidays including city breaks with all packages including flights, hotel, 23kg luggage and transfers on beach holidays, all covered by its Ultimate Flexibility, offering freedom to change a booking, a refund guarantee, and best price guarantee. 

Package holiday provider easyJet holidays also has a vast range of city escapes available, with packages available right up until 31 March 2026.

All easyJet holidays packages include flights, hotel, 23kg luggage on beach breaks all covered by its Ultimate Flexibility, offering freedom to change a booking, a refund guarantee, and best price guarantee.

Ali Gayward, easyJet’s UK Country Manager, said:

“It’s fantastic to launch another five new services from Birmingham Airport, providing our customers across the Midlands with even more choice for a winter sun holiday or city break.

“Now they can choose from flights to Marrakesh, Reykjavik, Hurghada, Prague and Krakow, as well as a wide range of easyJet holidays’ resorts, and we look forward to welcoming them onboard.”

Andrew Pelham, Aviation Development Manager, Birmingham Airport said:

[i"We’re delighted to be joining forces with easyJet to provide five new routes from its new Birmingham base, further strengthening our partnership"[/i]

[i"Whether customers are seeking a winter sun escape or a city break, these new destinations offer something for every type of traveller"[/i]

Great value seats are available to book from £31.99 return on easyJet.com and via the mobile app.

• Birmingham to Marrakesh from £31.99 return
• Birmingham to Reykjavik from £50.29 return
• Birmingham to Hurghada from £180.99 return
• Birmingham to Prague from £41.99 return
• Birmingham to Krakow from £48.99 return

Book with easyJet holidays (www.easyjet.com/en/holidays tel: 0330 365 5005).

• easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 4* Valeria Madina Club Resort in Marrakesh on an All Inclusive basis for £370 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from Birmingham Airport on 29 January 2025
• easyJet holidays offers three nights at the 3* Fosshotel Reykholt in Iceland on a Room Only basis for £266 per person including flights from Birmingham Airport on 1 February 2025
• easyJet holidays offers seven nights at the 5* Serenity Alma Resort in Egypt on an All Inclusive Plus basis for £509 per person including 23kg of luggage per person, transfers and flights from Birmingham Airport on 4 December 2024
• easyJet holidays offers three nights at the 4* Chevron Design Hotel Prague in Prague on a Room Only basis for £169 per person including flights from Birmingham Airport on 12 January 2025
• easyJet holidays offers three nights at the 3* Q Hotel Krakow in Krakow on a Room Only basis for £219 per person including flights from Birmingham Airport on 31 January 2025

For further information, please contact the easyJet Press Office via medicentre.easyJet.com/contacts or on 01582 525252

 Notes to editors

*Price based on Birmingham to Prague one way per person including taxes

About easyJet

easyJet is Europe’s leading airline offering a unique and winning combination of the best route network connecting Europe’s primary airports with great value fares and friendly service.

easyJet flies on more of Europe’s most popular routes than any other airline and carried more than 82 million passengers in 2023 with more than 11.3 million travelling for business. The airline has over 300 aircraft flying on nearly 1000 routes to more than 155 airports across 35 countries. Over 300 million Europeans live within one hour’s drive of an easyJet airport.

easyJet aims to be a good corporate citizen, employing people on local contracts in eight countries across Europe in full compliance with national laws and recognising their trade unions. The airline supports several local charities and has a corporate partnership with UNICEF which has raised nearly £17m for the most vulnerable children since it was established in 2012.

In 2022, easyJet published its roadmap to net zero by 2050. The roadmap, which also features a combination of fleet renewal, operational efficiencies, airspace modernisation, Sustainable Aviation Fuel and carbon removal technology, has set an ambitious interim carbon emissions intensity reduction target of 35% by 2035 which is validated by the Science-based targets initiative (SBTi). The airline’s ultimate aim is to fully transition its fleet to zero carbon emission technology, which it will achieve through a number of strategic partnerships including with Airbus, Rolls-Royce and GKN Aerospace Solutions. Since 2000, the airline has successfully reduced its carbon emissions per passenger, per kilometre by one-third.  

Innovation is in easyJet’s DNA – since launching nearly 30 years ago, easyJet changed the way people fly to the present day where the airline leads the industry in digital and operational innovations to make travel more easy and affordable for its passengers.

In 2023 easyJet was named by TIME as one of the World’s Best Companies and a Leader in Diversity 2024 by The Financial Times.

About easyJet holidays

easyJet holidays, offers great-value beach, city and lakes holidays to over 7000 hotels, in more than 100 destinations across Europe, directly through its website and through over 5000 travel agent partners. Named Rising Brand of the Year  byTravolution following launch in 2019, having taken almost 2 million people away in 2023. The ATOL-protected holidays can be secured with a deposit of just £60 per person, including flights, hotel, 23kg luggage and transfers on beach holidays. easyJet holidays is a member of ABTA, and all packages are covered by its Ultimate Flexibility, offering freedom to change a booking, a refund guarantee, and best price guarantee. In 2024 the holiday provider will also start operating from Switzerland, France and Germany.

Winners of the Sustainable Future Award at the Globe Travel Awards, easyJet holidays has a sustainability strategy focusing on three key pillars – create better holiday choices which is about making sustainable travel affordable and accessible to everyone; keep our holidays special which is maximising the benefits and minimising the negative impacts of travel and tourism, and transform travel for everyone which means embedding sustainability into business decisions and behaviours and driving meaningful change in the industry. The tour operator has partnered with the UNWTO to help develop the first environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework for tourism businesses, co-designing a measurement tool that is meaningful and feasible for better monitoring how tourism businesses impact, and depend on, people, planet and prosperity.

easyJet holidays has been named one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023 – being called out as one of the most loved employers and highly commended as a great place to work for LGBTQIA+ employees, as well as being named one of the Best Workplaces in Travel 2023.