Cheap Flights From London Gatwick

The budget airlines are beginning to break out of Stansted and Luton, as recently launched services to Krakow, Gdansk, Lisbon, Sofia, Bucharest and Innsbruck show.

Cheap Flights From London Airports

London has five main airports – Heathrow in the west, Gatwick to the south, City in the East, Stansted to the north-east and Luton to the north. Of these, Luton and Stansted are the main ones utilised by the budget airlines offering cheap flights.

Easyjet from London Gatwick Airport

However, this may be about to change. Low cost carrier Easyjet appears to be making a major investment into its services from London Gatwick Airport, if the new routes it has just announced are anything to go by. This is good news for those living in the South-East of England that want to take city breaks across Europe; the struggle across London to Stansted or Luton can be annoyingly time-consuming. It’s also useful for those in European cities wishing to visit London – more competition usually means lower prices.

New routes from London Gatwick

Here are the new Easyjet routes from London Gatwick, and the date on which the route will commence.

London Gatwick to Innsbruck, Austria: December 14 2007

London Gatwick to Sofia, Bulgaria: December 6 2007

London Gatwick to Gdansk, Poland: October 1 2007

London Gatwick to Krakow, Poland: October 5 2007

London Gatwick to Lisbon, Portugal: October 1 2007

London Gatwick to Bucharest, Romania: October 29 2007

Other Easyjet routes from London Gatwick

Easyjet also operates plenty of other existing services from London Gatwick. Many of these are to Spain – it offers low cost routes to Palma De Mallorca, Ibiza, Mahon, Valencia, Barcelona, Madrid, Alicante, Murcia and Malaga. There are also a lot of direct flights from Gatwick to France (La Rochelle, Nice, Marseille, Grenoble, Toulouse) and Italy (Rome, Milan, Pisa, Venice, Olbia, Palermo). Other destinations accessible from Gatwick Airport on the budget airline include Athens in Greece, Berlin in Germany and Split in Croatia.