Easter getaways from the Basque Country and Navarra, a wide range of destinations and frequencies

After the long pandemic, many people are recovering the interest in travel The variety of destinations regular flights and frequencies of Hegoalde airports is very large, which means Easter onions to the main cities and holiday destinations in Europe.

Airlines have moved destinations, with domestic tourism as the first option, but without losing sight of foreign countries.

And in this struggle for the traveler, especially for sun and beach, the airlines, travel agencies and tour operators are multiplying the destinations and travel offers, and putting some unpublished routes and others absent destinations for a long time.

The bilbao airport started its summer campaign on March 27 and will last until the last weekend of October. The airlines have planned 50 destinationsonly two routes less (Prague and Berlin) than the routes offered in the best summer in the history of Biscay airport in 2019.

Volotea has increased its seating offer by 88% compared to 2019, with 14 new routes and connections from May to Athens (Greece) and Cagliari (Sardinia).

In addition, two unprecedented airlines invaded Bizkaia: BlueAir (Romanian low-cost airline) and Edelweiss Air (Swiss’ second brand, of the Lufthansa Group). The first will offer flights to Bucharest, while the second will relocate its parent company to operate the connection to Zurich.

Norwegian is also returning, with tickets to Oslo. Air Arabia and Transavia complete this quintet. Both started last summer but now want to establish themselves with a larger offer, especially the Dutch airline that changes the destination from Rotterdam to Eindhoven and adds Paris Orly.

On national trips, where the offer has doubled to the islands (both the Canary Islands and the Balearic Islands) and the Mediterranean arc, with interesting proposals that were little used in previous years: Castellón, Granada and Jerez.

In contrast, La Paloma does not find two classic destinations, such as Prague and Berlin. Connectivity with the UK has also suffered. Edinburgh disappears and there is no connection with two London airports: Stansted and Southend, but there is a flight to Heathrow and Gatwick. Other cities that fall off the grid are Malta, Palermo and Stockholm.

foronda will have eight charter destinations this Easter: Prague (Czech Republic), Edinburgh (Scotland), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Budapest (Hungary), Istanbul (Turkey) and Sicily (Italy). To the Easter charters, we must add one to Egypt on April 25.

With all this offering, Foronda is preparing for a summer season that could become a record with flights to eight destinations and 30% more places. The companies have increased their range of seats for the summer period to almost 170,000.

Ryanair will offer flights to Charleroi (Brussels South) from the end of March, increasing Foronda’s offer of fixed connections to eight. They are Seville, Bergamo, Malaga, Alicante and Palma, all of the Irish airline, which will include Colonia from May and to which the Binter-operated connections to Gran Canaria will be added. This firm has suppressed that of Tenerife since April.

London is confirmed as the eighth route of the San Sebastian Airport which will connect to the British capital on Mondays and Fridays from 8 July.

Hondarribia airport has managed to expand its flights over the past year, and historic routes such as Madrid and Barcelona have been joined by flights to Mallorca, Menorca, the Canary Islands, Seville, Malaga and now London.

The Noain-Pamplona Airport has prepared four charter flights for Easter, with between 100 and 150 seats, departing directly from Navarra airport. The destinations are Prague (Czech Republic), Edinburgh (Scotland), Marrakech (Morocco) and Venice (Italy).

It has also expanded its offer of direct summer flights to Venice, Tallinn, Dubrovnik (Croatia), the Balearic Islands, the Canary Islands and Egypt.

In addition, since April, Iberia has expanded connections between Pamplona and Madrid with an increase in frequencies and timetables.