Vueling Added More Destinations from Gatwick for Summer

For the summer, budget airline Vueling has added Seville, Granada, Malaga, Almeria, and Menorca to its Gatwick route network.

It raises the total number of direct routes from the UK to Spain, France, and Italy to 25 for the season.

Vueling has launched a promotional campaign with flights to/from London starting at €1 before taxes until 4th April to commemorate the launch of the new services, which will begin between 1st April and 3rd April.

Vueling, which is owned by British Airways’ parent company, IAG, is deploying two new Airbus A320Neo aircraft on the routes.

Vueling’s chief commercial, strategy, network, and customer officer, Carolyn Prowse, said: “The UK represents Vueling’s strongest international market growth for 2022.

“We have doubled our presence at Gatwick airport compared to 2019 by adding new routes to Spain and deploying two new aircraft from April.”

Pedro Medina, deputy director of the Spanish Tourist Office (UK), said the pandemic has had a significant impact on visitor numbers, but that the future focus will be on a more sustainable strategy.

“In 2019, Spain registered over 83.5 million international arrivals which is huge, however, our focus is not to recover these numbers,” Medina said.

“We are looking at a more long-term tourism strategy which encourages social, environmental and economic sustainability.

“In the short-term, we are focusing on bringing back quality tourism and rebuilding traveller confidence, whilst in the mid to long term, we will be identifying and targeting key consumer groups which are aligned to our sustainability objectives.”

Summer air capacity for 2022 is only 3.5 percent lower than in 2019.