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Abigail Turner

New flights and holidays to Morocco launch at Bristol Airport

New flights and holidays to North Africa will run from Bristol Airport.

British airline easyJet has announced a new route and package holidays from Bristol to Marrakech in Morocco. Operating twice a week from October 31, with flights departing on Tuesdays and Saturdays with fares starting from £32.49.

The African city is known for its colourful souks, Moorish architecture, intimate gardens and charming riads.

The new service is among nine new routes easyJet has launched from nine airports across the UK, to destinations ranging across the UK, France, Morocco, Tunisia and Iceland.

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The launch of even more new routes from the UK for next winter follows easyJet’s return to growth this summer in the UK which will also see easyJet operate its biggest ever UK summer flying programme, flying around 8% more capacity than pre-pandemic and over 1m more seats in peak summer and 23 new routes from the UK.

Ali Gayward, easyJet's UK country manager, commented: “We are delighted to be announcing our new route and package holidays from Bristol to Marrakech today, which will provide customers across the south west with even more choice when planning their holidays and with flights now on sale, customers can book early to get the best fares.

“easyJet is proud to be the largest airline at Bristol and the launch of this new route demonstrates our confidence in the resilient strength of demand for travel in the UK, with customers choosing us for our trusted brand, unrivalled network and great value fares and we can’t wait to welcome more customers on board.”

Rupert Lawrie, commercial director, Bristol Airport added: “We are delighted easyJet is adding another exciting destination of Marrakech to the Bristol Airport network, this additional route compliments the successful easyJet flight programme already available to customers.

“The route further extends the choice and flexibility of flights available from Bristol Airport and will no doubt appeal to travellers throughout the South West and Wales region wishing to use their local Airport. We look forward to working with easyJet on further new route opportunities in the coming months.”

easyJet operates 69 routes from Bristol airport on 17 based aircraft. To book or discover more about easyJet’s UK network, visit easyJet.com.

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