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When it comes to choosing where to jet off to on holiday, Londoners are not exactly short on options. Between Heathrow (one of the planet’s busiest air hubs), Gatwick (which counts among the biggest airports in Europe), Stansted, Luton and City, there are very few places you can’t get to from the UK capital.
And this summer London is getting even more flight routes. Gatwick has revealed that new services will fly from the Sussex hub to 12 airports around the world, with those destinations spread from Europe and North Africa to the Middle East, Asia and North America. A whopping eight new carriers are coming to the airport in time for summer.
So, where will you soon be able to fly to from LGW, and who with? One of those routes is from Jet2, which is expanding its London route options. Jet2 will operate a total of 29 Gatwick routes in the summer season, including a thrice-weekly service to Tenerife in the Canary Islands.
In terms of further-flung destinations, Beijing Capital is launching a weekly service to Qingdao in China – all the better for making the most of the recent relaxation of visa rules for Brits.
Air Asia X is kicking off a service between Gatwick and the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, which will run seven times a week, while Air Transat is kicking off a three-times-per-week route to Ottawa in Canada. Royal Air Maroc will run twice a week to Tetouan, as Air Arabia flies 14 times weekly to Sharjah.
And that’s without diving into the new Europe routes. Bucharest (Animawings), Paris (Air France), Cologne (Eurowings), Frankfurt (Condor), Aalborg (Norwegian) and Stuttgart (Eurowings) will all have new services from LGW.
In all Gatwick will offer more than 230 destinations this summer – which the airport says is its highest number since 2019.
New London Gatwick airport destinations for summer 2026
Find a full list of all the new destinations, and when they launch, below
- Bucharest, Romania – Animawings, March 22
- Tenerife, Spain – Jet2, March 26
- Paris, France – Air France, March 29
- Tetouan, Morocco – Royal Air Maroc, March 29
- Cologne, Germany – Eurowings, March 29
- Sharjah, UAE – Air Arabia, March 29
- Frankfurt, Germany – Condor, April 1
- Aalborg, Denmark – Norwegian, April 2
- Stuttgart, Germany – Eurowings, April 13
- Ottawa, Canada – Air Transat, May 15
- Qingdao, China – Beijing Capital, June 24
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – AirAsia X, June 26
On top of all that, Stansted is also launching a load of new routes this summer to destinations in France, Turkey, Greece, Italy and Spain. Find out all about those flights here.
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