Gibraltar Airport in UK route expansion

easyJet is to fly three times per week from John Lennon Liverpool Airport to Gibraltar from 29 March.  It will compete with Monarch Airlines from Manchester, also currently three times weekly.  The new route could coincide with the opening of the British colony’s rebuilt air terminal nearing completion.  A road under the runway is due to be finished later in 2011.

The terminal is supposed to be joint user with Spain, rather like Basle, but with the country in a financial crisis the Spanish side of the operation has failed to keep pace with that under the Union flag, and completion is some way off.

easyJet now flies to 33 destinations from Liverpool John Lennon Airport including recently announced new routes to Brussels, Salzburg and Tallinn. www.easyjet.com

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