Millions are expected to escape the UK during the Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend with record numbers of lights set to take off. Aviation analysts Cirium is anticipating more than 10,000 flights will depart UK airports during the holiday period.
Some 10,814 departures are scheduled from UK airports, equating to 1,908,220 seats. Dublin is the most popular destination, with 403 flights. This is followed by Amsterdam (387), Palma de Mallorca (300), Malaga (242) and Alicante (209).
The airline with the most flights planned is easyJet (2,290 departures), followed by Ryanair (1,624), British Airways (1,597), Jet2 (798), and TUI (558). The busiest airport will be London Heathrow with 2,298 departures, followed by Gatwick (1,590), Manchester (1,057), Stansted (966) and Luton with (587).
Friday, June 3 is expected to be the busiest day, with 2,848 flights departing UK airports. A Cirium spokesperson said; "If we compare this data to the equivalent weekend in 2021, flights are up 212 per cent and up 1,025 per cent on 2020. When compared to June 6-9 2019, fights are only down 18 per cent - a sign that the industry continues to recover."
There are scheduled to be 83,136 departures from UK airports this June - the highest number since October 2019 when there were 94,893. Flights this June are up 241 per cent on June 2021, and up 823 per cent on June 2020. Compared to June 2019, they are down only 16.4 per cent
The data shows Turkey and Greece are performing the best – with flights from the UK exceeding June 2019 levels by 34.5 per cent and 24.2 per cent respectively. Meanwhile, Cirium has revealed that flights to Spain this summer will reach 93 per cent of 2019 levels.
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