Beaucaire From Syria, joined Sep 2003, 5252 posts, RR: 26 Posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 1795 times:
After the announcement to fly to Rijeka in Croatia,there are persistent rumors in France ,that Easyjet will open flights to Bordeaux and Ajaccio (Corsika ).
That would mean a change in strategy away from very large cities to medium size regional centers.
Do we have rumours from other smaller places being viewed as new destinations ? ( other than Marrakech which is not that small with nearly half a million population..)
Can we expect places like Tangiers,Thessalonika,Split,Nuremberg or Bologna to be selected ?
Joost From Netherlands, joined Apr 2005, 3131 posts, RR: 4 Reply 3, posted (7 years 3 months 2 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 1476 times:
I agree on hre with RJ100 that Bordeaux and Nuremberg are the typical easyJet destinations. Just like Basle, Bristol and Newcastle. Large cities but pretty much left by the 'national' carriers like LX and BA who concentrated on their hubs.
easyJet actually have served Bologna for quite a while and dropped it after summer 2005, IIRC they served it from LGW.
For Rijeka and Split, I think those are logical next steps in their strategy. They have a strong position on the UK - Spanish and Portugese sun/sea/beach destinations (ALC, AGP, FAO) and here I think it is no more than logical that they want to serve the rising destinations too.
I could see Thessaloniki as a destinations from LON, PAR, MXP or SXF, for tourists mostly and a bit of VFR/Business traffic in the mix.
All together, I do not see it as a change of strategy, but more as a logical evolution. Also, because some of their markets (UK-Spain) look to become pretty saturated.
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