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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
National
Lee Garrett & Joel Moore

Couple face ferry trip as Easyjet cancels key East Midlands Airport route

A couple have criticised airline Easyjet after it announced it would be cancelling its route to Belfast from East Midlands Airport. One passenger said the move the means they may now have to travel by ferry.

David Smith regularly used the service to visit his wife who worked in the Northern Ireland capital. The pair would then often travel back on the same route in between stays at home in Shepshed, Leicestershire, but now their plans have been changed, reports Leicestershire Live.

That’s after Easyjet confirmed it would no longer be running the service after March 25. It’s a decision that’s left David and his wife disappointed. “It’s a real inconvenience to us and it’s becoming more of a problem with airlines now,” David said. “I used to go with Flybe and then they went bust and was forced to go to Birmingham.

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