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Destinations with biggest increases in June airline capacity revealed

Morocco, Cyprus, Turkey and Croatia are all showing double-digit percentage growth in flights from the UK this month over June 2023.

However, new analysis shows Spain, France and Italy as being among destinations yet to recover to pre-pandemic 2019 levels of airline capacity from British airports.

The biggest increase is to Morocco at 42.8%, with the number of flights up to 631 in the month.


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Cyprus has seen a 16.6% year-on-year rise to 1,152 flights, Turkey 15.2% to 3,848 and Croatia 12.6% to 967.

Spain continues to outstrip all other main summer destinations with 14,150 flights in June, up 7.4%.

The data from industry analytics firm Cirium highlighted Ireland as showing the only decline, with a 3.3% drop in flights to 4,270.

Italy, Greece, the US and France will be served by more than 4,000 flights each this month followed the the Netherlands and Portugal with more than 3,000 each.

The UAE will see a 7.2% rise to 836 flights, but still 3.2% down on the June 2019 level, according to Cirium.

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