EasyJet is to start serving the Croatian island of Krk from Gatwick this summer.
Flights will run twice a week to Rijeka airport on Tuesdays and Saturdays from May 3.
The new route announcement came as the budget airline marked 20 years of flying from Gatwick.
The airline is has added 1.1 million additional seats on sale from the airport for the summer when it will operate a fleet of 79 aircraft on 120 routes.
EasyJet flew round 19 million passengers to and from Gatwick in pre-pandemic 2019.
UK country manager Ali Gayward said: “Over the last two decades we have remained committed to providing even more choice for our customers travelling to and from the airport, growing our operation to become Gatwick’s largest airline.
“And we remain focused on growth at Gatwick; we recently added over a million extra seats from the airport for next summer and new routes such as our new flights to Krk off the coast of Croatia.”