Four Volotea novelties in Strasbourg

From 21 December 2019 to 25 April 2020, the Spanish flight specialist will propose a flight every Saturday between her base at Strasbourg-Entzheim and the airport Marrakech-Menara, its first towards the Moroccan city, with more than 13,800 seats put on sale. Volotea will be without competition on this road (TUI Fly Belgium proposed it this summer), like on that which will connect the same day during the same period Strasbourg with Lanzarote-Cesar Manrique (over 9,600 seats) It already serves the Canary Island from Nantes, Bordeaux and Marseille. Both destinations had already been announced last July.

The two other low-cost Strasbourg novelties will see the light next spring: from April 10 to August 31, 2020, it will offer more than 24,000 seats on rotations Monday and Friday between Entzheim and the airport. Barcelona-El Prat, again a new destination without competition. Finally Palma de Mallorca will be served without competition on Wednesday from May 13 to August 26 from Strasbourg (more than 7,700 seats), the eighth line of Volotea to the Balearic Islands from France. These two destinations should be offered until October.

In 2020, Volotea will serve 19 destinations from Strasbourg with 645,000 seats in total (70,000 more than this year), enabling it to maintain its position as the airline's leading airline in terms of destinations: 9 destinations in France (Ajaccio, Bastia, Bordeaux, Figari South Corsica, Marseille, Montpellier , Nantes, Nice and Toulouse) and 10 internationally (Athens, Barcelona, ​​Cagliari, Corfu, Dubrovnik, Lanzarote, Marrakech, Olbia, Palermo and Palma de Mallorca). She opened a base there in May 2015 (after landing there for the first time in 2012), and celebrated in September 2017 her millionth passenger; the two million mark should be reached "in a few weeks". The low cost puts on sale to celebrate these announcements of tickets starting from 9 € to Barcelona until tonight 10 October.

" The warm welcome we have received in our Strasbourg base since 2015 is driving us to continue to develop further by offering 4 new international exclusive lines in 2020. We are very happy to announce a set of new destinations and believe that these new choices will be well received by locals Said in a statement Pierfrancesco Carino, Sales Director of Volotea. " Thanks to its extraordinary success in the domestic market from Strasbourg, Volotea is now concentrating its development on international routes, completing very favorably the network of services of Strasbourg with destinations particularly expected by the Alsatians (Marrakech, Lanzarote, Palma) and a great exclusivity: Barcelona Added Thomas Dubus, Chairman of the Management Board of Strasbourg Airport.

From January to September 2019, Volotea operated nearly 2900 flights in Strasbourg, "with a significant improvement of 7 points in its punctuality rate, despite the heavy congestion of air traffic during the summer". Over the last 9 months, the fill rate has averaged 94%, representing more than 422,000 passengers – an increase of 23% over the first nine months of 2018, the airline concludes.

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