Flight departures from UK airports during the Easter weekend are expected to reach 78 per cent of pre-Covid peaks. Some 9,212 planes will leave the nation's airports compared to 11,743 during the holiday period in 2019, it has been revealed.
Research from aviation analysts Cirium showed that demand for travel was surging ahead with around 1.63 million flights seats sold for the holiday weekend. Busiest day is set to be Good Friday with almost 2.500 services scheduled to take off from the UK - more than 1,000 more than the 1,363 flights that operated last year and a massive 800 per cent more than the 984 flights in 2020 at the start of the Covid pandemic.
Low-cost airline easyJet is set to operate the most services during the forthcoming Easter weekend with 1,952 departures, followed by British Airways with 1,648, and Ryanair with 1,588. Most popular route should be London Heathrow to New York JFK, followed by Heathrow to Dublin and Amsterdam.
