Airlines are preparing to lay on hundreds of thousands more seats between the UK and Greece next summer than they did in 2019 in the hope of a boom in foreign holidays as travel restrictions ease, according to Financial Times.
Jet2 and EasyJet are among carriers that have added capacity to their pre-pandemic flight schedule for 2022. Jet2 said it had 1m more seats on sale between Greece and the UK than it had offered in 2019, while easyJet has plans to add about 500,000 more flight tickets to its schedule subject to space being made available at airports.
The deals between the airlines and the Greek government, with the tourism ministry helping to secure airport slots for planes in return for guarantees of inbound flights, are an indication of the travel industry’s faith in a strong bounceback in foreign travel next year.
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