More than 11,000 flights at UK airports on Easter holidays

This weekend is scheduled to be crowded for airports in the UK, where both the next Friday and Monday are considered as public holidays in conjunction with the country’s Easter celebrations. For many people, weekends on Easter, What was said to be a later date this year was a factor in the decrease in traffic in March at London Hitro Airport (LHR), represents an ideal opportunity to fly a family.

As such, the large and small airports in the UK are preparing for what appears to be a long weekend. In fact, the current scheduling data available by CereiumA flying analysis company shows that more than 11,000 flights are to leave airports in the United Kingdom between Friday, April 18, Monday, April 21. Let’s go more in data to study what will be the most crowded days and methods.

Easter will not be the most crowded at all

According to Cirium data, as the company participates earlier today, a total of 11,278 airport flights in the UK throughout the long weekend will leave. These services will provide more than 2.06 million seats (at a rate of approximately 183 seats per trip), and a huge value of more than 3.1 billion miles available seat (ASMS). But which weekend days are more crowded?

Perhaps not surprisingly, given the four -day nature of the long weekend trips that many travelers in the United Kingdom will take over on Easter in order to benefit from vacation days, it will be Friday 18 and Monday 21 days in conjunction in terms of leaving scheduled at the country’s airports. These days, respectively, will witness 2949 and 2,909 flights, compared to 2624 flights on Saturday 19 and 2,796 on Sunday 20.

Compared to the numbers last year, traffic in UK airports Regarding the scheduled departures, a 6 % worker increased on an annual basis compared to Easter 2024, which decreased at the beginning of April. This, as Cirium notes, appears.The continued recovery for the industry“However, the weekend will not be at the end of this weekend the most crowded ever at UK airports, as departures decreased by 4 % from 11,743 that took off on Easter 2019.

Getaways & short flights from London are the most popular

London Heathrow is the busiest airports in the UK, with more than 80 million guests annually. While its dominance in this sector is well known, this is especially clear during the long weekend. In fact, with 2680 scheduled departure, the facility represents approximately 23.8 % of the country’s total traffic. Among the other big hunger strikers in London Gatwick (LGW), Manchester Airport (Man) and London Stanstid (STN).

According to Cerium, Dublin Airport

DUB is to be the most popular international destination of UK airports on Easter in terms of scheduled departure, with 463 flights at the end of the week. These are divided between 121 on Friday, 107 on Saturday, 116 on Sunday, and 119 on Monday. Heathrow has the most binding departures in Dublin, with 65, followed by Manchester in 51 and Edi Airport (EDI) in 46.

Spain is ranked high among the best destinations on Easter

Elsewhere in Europe, Amsterdam Shaibhoul Airport

(AMS) in the Netherlands is another famous destination, with 421 flights and 59,631 seats available on airports in UK on Easter. Of course, in addition to being a convincing destination in itself, Amsterdam is also noticeable that you are a separation communications center. Heathrow has most of the departure, with 61 during the weekend.

Beyond that, Spanish destinations remain a popular possibility for UK travelers on Easter, with Malaga (AGP), Alcity (ALC), and Palma de Mirka (PMI), all of whom are high (Because it tends to do it throughout the year). Malaga from Costa del Sol 239 has a departure from UK airports, with 45123 seats, while Alicante has 239 flights and 45364 seats, compared to 233 flights and 42,830 seats for Palma de Mallorca.