Alicante-Elche Airport Schedules 360,000 Arrival Seats for a Record-Breaking Easter

High season has already begun at Alicante-Elche Airport, marking the first major test, Easter. With its summer schedule nearly full, Alicante terminal will offer between April and October 226 routes to 135 airports across 120 cities in 30 countries, all operated by over thirty airlines.

After two consecutive months of record-breaking figures and a likely new passenger peak in March, El Altet terminal is gearing up for a significant influx of travellers. Airlines have scheduled 360,000 seats during Easter destined for the Costa Blanca.

Of these, one-third will be from the United Kingdom, the province's largest market, accounting for approximately 120,000 seats. With connections to four London airports, connectivity with Great Britain is at its peak, offering flights to Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Cardiff, or Belfast, among many other cities in England and Scotland, as well as Northern Ireland and Wales. The opening of Jet2's new base in London-Luton has only boosted the offer to the UK, with a new route to Bournemouth also inaugurated.

The Netherlands follows, another nationality well-established among international tourists on the Costa Blanca, with an offer rising to 22,000 seats.

Germany will be the third market for this Easter, with 15 different routes operated by more than four airlines to cities like Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, or Nuremberg, among others. Alicante-Elche Airport will have 19,000 seats from Germany. Norway and Belgium complete the Easter offer with 16,000 arrival seats each.

The Nordic countries have emerged as another major growing market, along with Poland. Norwegian, the fourth largest airline in Alicante, has increased frequencies for the summer and even opened new routes, taking over those abandoned by other airlines.

By Easter, most summer connections will be available, along with many new routes, both unprecedented and those extending from the winter season. Ryanair recently inaugurated its three new connections to Bydgoszcz in Poland, and Linz and Salzburg in Austria.

EasyJet expanded its route with Naples and inaugurated, for the first time, flights to Athens, an unprecedented route at Alicante-Elche Airport. Norwegian also extends and improves frequencies on its route to the Latvian capital, Riga.

Another novelty will be flights to Eastern Europe, with two unprecedented links, such as Wizz Air to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, or the Ukrainian airline Sky Up, which will connect the Costa Blanca with Chisinau, the capital of Moldova.