Easy Jet plan five new flights from the UK, connecting Fuerteventura with Liverpool and London

The connection will start operations from next November. Tickets are now on sale on the website of the airline.

The Tourist Board of Fuerteventura has confirmed with the low cost airline easyJet, the launch of two new air links between the island and United Kingdom, which began operating in November with five flights a week, three with the city Liverpool and two in London (London Stansted).

Councilor for Tourism of the Town, Agueda Montelongo, highlighted the boost that will bring the UK market for the empowerment of these five flights a week, offering very competitive prices at a time when the island needs to be able to have the largest number of seats air as possible. "

According to calculations in the body promoting island, operating five weekly flights during the winter season is an increase in the supply of airline seats over 22,000. Tickets for these flights are already on sale at the official website of easyJet.

Agueda Montelongo used to recall that contacts with the low-cost airline started in the last edition of Fitur, "when we sit down with their managers agree with them and study the implementation of these routes that are now beginning to function."

According to the counselor, this news is more interesting, even considering the policy of a "serious company like easyJet, when choosing a destination to stay and is very heavily on him."

Liverpool-Fuerteventura. Begin operations next November 2, uniting the island with the British city on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. Tickets can be purchased at the Web from 27.99 euros one way.

London (Stansted)-Fuerteventura. Start Start the November 4 operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays, from 32.99 euros one way.

EasyJet started its operations with Fuerteventura in November 2007, uniting the island with Madrid with a frequency of 3 times weekly. This route has been expanded since then to include the current 5 weekly flights, linking Madrid and Fuerteventura all Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in the afternoon.

"It is also important to highlight the advantages of these new routes. On the one hand for the resident population, which has the opportunity to travel to England at affordable prices, and another for the tourism sector, which will begin to receive a profile of tourists who use the low cost and spends far more than the average tourist , "said the counselor.

Agueda Montelongo ended by noting that "the existence of such flights allow tourists to organize themselves, which gives the island tourism sector a greater degree of independence with the tour."

Puerto del Rosario, July 13, 2009

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