EasyJet is flying to Tunisia next summer – first time since the 2015 Sousse massacre – The Sun

EASYJET will be flying to Tunisia from London Gatwick next summer.

It will be the first time the airline has flown to the African country since the 2015 Sousse massacre.

The airline announced that it will operate two flights a week from Gatwick to the beach resort of Enfidha, starting on May 2, 2020.

UK airlines stopped flying to Tunisia when the Foreign and Commonwealth Office advised against all but essential visits, following the June 2015 Sousse attack in which 30 Britons were killed.

The guidance was withdrawn for the majority of the North African country in July 2017.

Thomas Cook resumed package holidays there for UK customers in February last year.

Next summer will also see easyJet fly to Tirana in Albania, from the UK, for the first time.

The capital offers a city break destination which is within an hour of beaches on the coast of the Adriatic Sea.

Flights will operate three times a week from Gatwick.

EasyJet's other new routes for summer 2020 include Liverpool to Antalya, Turkey, and Edinburgh to Gibraltar.

The airline has no immediate plans to return to Sharm el-Sheikh, despite the strategy and sourcing director for its holiday arm saying that they would launch holidays there.

It follows the lifting of a ban on flights between the UK and the Egyptian resort in October.

All UK flights were halted in November 2015, following the bombing of a Russian airliner.

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