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In this video you’ll hear from easyJet holidays’ head of trade distribution, Natasha Marson.
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With easyJet holidays’ head of trade distribution, Natasha Marson and TTG Media’s Charlotte Cullinan.
Charlotte: Welcome to our latest In The Spotlight video with easyJet holidays! And today we’re going to be hearing all about easyJet holidays’ brand new base at Newcastle Airport. So Tash, tell us what we need to know.
Natasha: How exciting is this, Charlotte? You’re absolutely right. We have launched a brand-new easyJet base, which was on the 10th of June, which is very exciting. And we’ve got lots of lovely new routes that are taking off for the summer of 2026, so next year, which is very exciting. And the feedback so far from our key agents and our partners in the north has been absolutely brilliant. So I’m very excited to tell you as much as I can.
Charlotte: Thank you. Let’s start by talking about the existing and new routes that you have on offer from Newcastle.
Natasha: Of course. So most of you will already know that easyJet offers just eight destinations from Newcastle Airport to domestic gems – so we’ve got beautiful Belfast and Bristol – and then we’ve got three city break destinations as well. So our favourites are Amsterdam, Geneva and Paris. And then we’ve got our Spanish routes, which we absolutely love. So the Spanish spots are Malaga, Alicante and Palma.
But let’s be honest, eight wasn’t enough, was it?! So we added 11 brand new destinations to our offering, bringing agents a total now of 19 new routes from Newcastle Airport. So the new destinations are Malta, which is a firm favourite and got off to an excellent start in terms of customers booking that particular route. Rhodes up there in the top three as well. Corfu, Faro, Reus, Tunisia, Sharm el Sheik, Dalaman, Antalya, Prague and Nice. Which I’m also led to believe is very popular for customers traveling from Newcastle. How good is that?
Charlotte: Thank you. And give us a flavour of some of the brilliant products that agents can promote to their clients.
Natasha: We’ve got an awful lot, I’m not going to lie. So I’m going to rattle through these with great finesse. We have got thousands of four- and five-star properties that I literally could talk about these all day. You know what I’m like, but I’ll try and highlight just a couple of the key ones really.
So we’ve got some fantastic prices in Turkey. Our gorgeous destination. We love Turkey – firm favourite with families and couples alike. So at the moment we’re really looking at the five-star Eftalia Blue, which is fab for families, and the five-star adults only Cook’s Club as well. And the ultra-luxury five star Maxx Royal in Kemer, which are absolutely brilliant.
We’ve also got the lovely family friendly four-star db Seabank Resort in Malta, which I’ve already said is doing exceptionally well, and some small and friendly hotels in Gozo, which is a gorgeous little island just off Malta, including the four-star Cornucopia Hotel, which is beautiful. We’ve also got our popular four-star Ukino Palmeiras Village and five-star Tivoli Alvor Algarve Resort in Portugal, which I’ve been to, which is great.
The gorgeous adults-only five-star Cook’s Club in Corfu. If you guys haven’t seen that, please take a look at it. Prices are exceptionally keen there at the moment. The five-star Atrium Prestige Thalasso Spa Resort in Rhodes, again, selling incredibly well, a firm favourite which has got incredible room options.
And also the ultra-luxury Ikos Dassia in Corfu. And I’ve got four more. So the four-star Hotel Caribe in PortAventura. Absolutely brilliant because there’s a theme park with the tickets included in Costa Dorada, which is excellent, and all of the lovely five-star Rixos properties in Sharm El Sheikh, including Rixos Radamis and the Rixos Premium Seagate, which I’ve also been to, which was absolutely brilliant.
And finally, the Movenpick Resort and Jaz Tour Khalef, both located in Sousse in Tunisia. So there’s quite a lot there to remember. Good job you can play back your video guys. But these can all be found on the trade portal, as and all of them have got free kids’ places for next summer. So look now, that’s my direction.
Charlotte: Fabulous. Gosh, there’s some great choices there. Thank you. And agents in the north-east can also apply for a Big Orange Makeover. Can you fill us in on everything we need to know about that?
Natasha: Absolutely. So this is something, this was our initiative last year. Actually it started in September of last year.
And we reached out to trade and said, we’ve got some money. We’d like you guys to use it in the best way that you possibly can. So have a look at your retail branches and tell us what you would like to add a touch of orange to. So in the north-east we haven’t had many routes. Now we’ve got 19. We thought we would open the purse again and pull some money out and try and give some of that money away to our north-east agents and really encourage them to say why they would like to spend some money with easyJet holidays and add a touch of orange to their beautiful shops.
So what actually happens is we’re thrilled to announce the applications are now open once again, and we call it a Big Orange Makeover. Perfect for agents that want to brighten up their store with easyJet holidays branding. So think about projection signs on the outside of the premises to highlight that you sell easyJet holidays here. We’ve also got loads of collateral for inside the shops as well, so we’ve got beam bags, we’ve got deck chairs, we’ve got internal and external wall art, window wrapping. Offer cards to promote those offers with easyJet holidays and lots of other things. So it’s a plethora really, of merch and collateral that they can use. So agents can access all of this. The application form is pinned on the Facebook page – easyJet holidays agents – So that’s where it all is.
Charlotte: Amazing. Thank you so much, Tash. There’s so much great info there to help agents with their sales, so thank you for sharing that. And thank you for watching our In The Spotlight video with easyJet holidays. You’re welcome.
