Tickets now on sale for new EasyJet Gatwick-Granada flight route
Thursday, November 10, 2016 @ 12:18 AM
FLIGHTS to the UK will restart from Granada airport from next year, and the first tickets went on sale today.
Low-cost carrier EasyJet will start operating routes between London Gatwick and Federico García Lorca airport, which serves Granada and Jaén and sits on the provinceial border, from February 4, 2017.
This will bring an estimated 20,000 British visitors to Granada over next year, the provincial tourist board estimates.
Flights will run three times weekly – on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays – year-round, even in low season which is, in fact, when Granada city welcomes the most tourists.
EasyJet confirms it intends to look into opening up to 17 new routes from Granada-Jaén airport to several other European cities.
It has not confirmed which one, but says at least one will be in the UK.
Granada, meanwhile, is attemping to seduce British tourists to the city and wider province: for the first time ever, its authorities are manning a stand within the Andalucía pavilion at the World Travel Market (WTM) in London, which concludes today.
According to representatives, the tourist board wants to show UK visitors that 'there is more to Granada than the Alhambra Palace'.
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