easyJet’s 2025 plan, as illustrated by country manager Lorenzo Lagorio, will revolve around its four bases of Milan Malpensa, Milan Linate, Rome Fiumicino and Naples.
Linate and Fiumicino are the two new bases
With a total of 38 aircraft in place, five more than in 2024, and 21 million seats available, “the Italian market thus becomes the second most important for easyjet, after the United Kingdom and before France.” There are numerous novelties, starting with the two new bases at Linate and Fiumicino. From the end of March 2025 the Milanese city airport, for months a real bone of contention between ITA-LH and the European antitrust, will have five based aircraft for 1.5 million seats on sale which is +145% over 2024. It will also have a network of 21 routes - 16 of which new - to 12 countries, numbers that position easyJet as the second carrier at Linate, with a market share of over 20%. We will have 120 pilots and flight attendants, who will then increase, when the three wet-lease aircraft from ITA Airways (as per agreements with the EU they will be available for one season and up to a maximum of three) leave and are replaced by our own aircraft and crews.” 
“Rome Fiumicino will have 1.4 million seats on sale for summer 2025”
The new destinations are Lisbon, Barcelona, Birmingham, Frankfurt, Ibiza, Brussels, Luxembourg, Manchester, Edinburgh, Oslo, Vienna and Copenhagen, Split, Figari, Palma de Mallorca and Tenerife.
“Of these, only three are “obliged” by the dictates of the EU, namely Brussels, Frankfurt and Vienna,- adds Lagorio, -the rest meet the demands of both leisure and business traffic. Some purely summer destinations stand out, such as Corsica or Tenerife, as do absolute novelties such as the connection to Barcelona. Flights to London Gatwick increase to two daily, while Amsterdam and Berlin with up to three flights per day. Between Linate and Paris (both Orly and Charles de Gaulle) flights will increase to 4 a day, confirming its leadership role between the two cities.” “Rome Fiumicino, on the other hand, will see 3 aircraft based from the end of March, 1.4 million seats on sale for summer 2025, 35% more than last summer, and a total of 16 routes (five of which are new) to five countries. Rome, among the European airports where we do not have a base, is the one with the largest presence of easyJet aircraft.”
New routes here include: Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Brussels and Zurich.
Milan Malpensa is easyJet’s main Italian base
In 2025 growth is not limited to the new bases at Linate and Fiumicino, “but continues at Malpensa, our main Italian base, as well as in continental Europe, where we have 22 aircraft based operating 74 routes and a total of 6.3 million seats on offer for next summer. There will be four new routes from Varese airport to Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Paris Orly and Evenes - Lofoten. In addition, the connections from Malpensa to Cairo and Tromsø and those from Naples to Prague and Alicante, among the additions to this year's winter season, will also be operated during the summer. Growth between the two airports of Linate and Malpensa will be complementary: we want easyJet to become the reference company for the Milanese market.”
Naples will serve 52 routes with 8 aircraft next summer
Overall, the carrier is expanding its offer between Italy and Germany by over 50% “a market where we have been studying a possible expansion for some time, even before the ITA-Lufthansa operation” with over one million seats on sale between the two countries next summer. In addition to the routes from Milan and Rome, there are also services to Munich already operated from the Naples base and flights to Berlin from Venice, Pisa, Catania, Olbia and Naples. For the summer of 2025, 8 aircraft will be based in Naples, serving a network of 52 routes, for 2.8 million seats offered, which is 5% more than last summer: “The new routes are Alicante, Luxembourg, Prague, Salzburg and Strasbourg. Confirmed, finally, the operation from Salerno inaugurated last 11 July and up tp November we carried 46,000 passengers.” To complete the picture of new 2025 routes, there are another two new routes: from Lamezia Terme to Nice and from Palermo to Bristol, bringing the total number of new routes from Italy to 27.
At Milan the split is 50/50 inbound to outbound
As far as traffic composition is concerned, “today at Milan Linate we register 50-50% inbound and outbound passengers, but the forthcoming opening of the base will allow us to better respond to the needs of passengers from Milan and Lombardy, so we expect the percentage of outbound passengers to increase.” Milan’s city airport also boasts a higher number of business travellers “ 30% more compared to the average of 20% for other airports” and the introduction of some of the new destinations, served by more frequencies per day, will be a further incentive in easyJet's choice of this passenger target. From Rome Fiumicino the picture is similar, but in this case the percentages are unbalanced in favour of inbound with 70% of passengers coming from abroad. In particular at Rome,we need to make ourselves known to potential passengers, after having somewhat neglected this market in recent years.”
“Aiming for competitive fares”
The investment in Linate already reveals a different fare level compared to the offer from Milan Malpensa: “Linate airport is more expensive than Malpensa, so it is obvious that there are higher departure fares. But the passenger target is also different, there is more corporate traffic. In general, however, even from here we will have competitive fares which, perhaps are lacking today considering the offer is almost exclusively the prerogative of traditional carriers. I believe that our presence will create price containment dynamics.”
