Madrid becomes 17th easyJet base

Andy Harrison, easyJet’s Chief Executive, today officially opens easyJet’s 17th base at Madrid’s Barajas airport. The airline expects to carry over two million passengers from Madrid in 2007 on 18 routes - three domestic, thirteen European and two to North Africa.

Four brand new Airbus A319 aircraft will be permanently based at Madrid Airport, the largest airport on the Iberian Peninsula, from February. The initial investment of 170 million Euros will create 150 jobs for pilots and cabin crew at easyJet.

Spain is one of easyJet’s fastest growing markets. Last year easyJet launched 13 new routes to and from Spain and the airline has already announced a further 13 routes to and from Spain to be opened this year. Currently easyJet offers 79 routes from 12 Spanish airports and Spain now accounts for 29% of the total easyJet route network.

Sorce: easier.com