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Volotea will launch its largest seat and route offering by 2022.

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Spanish airline Volotea will offer its largest historical offer this year, with almost 40% more seats, 45 new routes and nearly 70,000 flights.

Volotea will offer, during this 2022, 11 million seats, that is, an increase of nearly 40 percent, compared to 2019 when it offered 8 million seats; and expects to transport between 9 and 9.5 million passengers in 2022, which is approximately 32 percent more than the annual record reached in 2019 when it transported 7.6 million.

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In addition, the airline plans to open between 40 and 45 new routes, of which 10 will be in Spain; as well as two new bases that will be added to the existing ones, and estimates to operate almost 70,000 flights compared to 40,500 in 2021 and almost 58,000 in 2019, i.e., about 18 percent more.

Spain will continue to be a key market for Volotea, where it will continue to contribute to the gradual consolidation of the recovery of tourism through its connectivity strategy with the islands. To this end, it plans to increase supply to these destinations by 58% more than in 2019, before the pandemic. In addition, it will increase its capacity by 49% compared to 2019 with an offer of 2.2 million seats and will increase the activity of its bases in Asturias and Bilbao.

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In terms of sales forecasts, Volotea estimates a growth of more than 20 percent compared to 2019 with some 525 million euros compared to 441 million euros in 2019. The airline also plans to increase its workforce in all its markets. In June 2021, Volotea had more than 1,400 employees, of which 435 in Spain and this 2022 its forecasts are to exceed the figure of 1,600 employees in Europe.

Last year, Volotea brought forward the transition to a 100% Airbus fleet, which is going to allow it to be much more efficient, improve its cost structure in the next 2-3 years and realize the increase in supply thanks to the new aircraft having a greater capacity and a longer flight range.

“We expect that from Easter onwards the sector will start to recover from the effects of the 5th wave and that there will be a gradual growth in demand until the summer season, from April to October, by which time we expect to operate 41% more capacity than in 2019, before the pandemic. We have taken this decision after analyzing the latent demand in our markets, and after having been able to maintain since June 2020 an average seat occupancy of over 90 percent,” commented Carlos Muñoz, founder and CEO of Volotea.

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