Vueling expansion in 2013

Photo: Pedro Simões from Lisboa, Portugal

Spanish airline Vueling has revealed that it will expand its route network next year, BreakingAirNews.com reports. The rout network will reach out to 100 destinations from Barcelona El Prat Airport.

The new routes will be flown from the summer schedule commencing March 2013.
A new service to Gatwick, London’s second biggest hub airport for the airline, will be joined by Frankfurt, and Dusseldorf.  There will also be a significant increases in the frequency of flights from Barcelona and new cities in Germany, France, Italy and Scandinavia. Over the past two summers, Vueling has launched a total of 45 new destinations.
Vueling’s objective is that in 2014 Barcelona will become the leading European airline for connections.

Of the 28 new routes planned for the next IATA summer season, from the end of March 2013, five have not been operated from El Prat airport in the past.  That is Dresden (Germany), Rennes (France), Fez (Morocco), Rhodes and Kos (Greece). The airline is also adding four new countries to its network: the Gambia (Banjul), Finland (Helsinki), Bulgaria (Sofia) and Luxembourg.