As schools prepare to break up across the UK this week, easyJet and easyJet holidays are set to see their biggest ever summer with over 80,000 network wide during the school holidays and over 380k flights across the summer season.

Over seven million UK customers are set to take to the skies on over 45,000 flights to and from the UK alone during the school break.

The airline is operating its biggest ever summer this year, with eight additional Airbus A320 family aircraft having joined its UK-based fleet at Bristol, Newcastle, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow.

More than 39 million seats are set to operate to and from the UK across the whole summer season, half a million more than last year, while 53 new routes are operating for the first time this summer, with more choice to longer leisure destinations like Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.

The airline’s will operate its busiest day of the summer season on 31st August on nearly 2200 flights are set to take off with over 366k customers, as thousands of families across the UK return from their summer break, while others jet off on their well-deserved holidays.

Spanish Malaga and Palma de Mallorca top the list for the most popular summer destinations from the UK this summer, as well as Faro in Portugal proving to be a firm favourite for those seeking guaranteed sun, outstanding food, culture and natural beauty.

easyJet holidays is also set for its biggest ever summer, with more than a quarter of children travelling on its package holidays doing so for free through the tour operator’s free child places. Club Mac Alcudia in Majorca is the most popular hotel this summer, closely followed by One Resort Aqua Park in Tunisia.

Closer to home, Edinburgh followed by Belfast are the most popular UK destinations for people travelling across the UK to friends and relatives during the summer holidays.

Great value fares are still available for this summer including:

• London Gatwick to Copenhagen from £38.99*, to Palma from £29.99*, and Faro from £29.99*
• London Luton to Nice from £32.99*, to Berlin from £32.99*, and Malaga from £35.99*
• London Southend to Antalya from £42.99, to Faro from £14.99 and Alicante from £14.99
• Bristol to Geneva from 23.99*, to Madrid from £23.99* and to Nice from £32.99*
• Birmingham to Edinburgh from £17.99* to Malaga from £20.99*, to Corfu from £23.99*
• Manchester to Hamburg from £23.99*, to Skiathos from £29.99* and to Split from £26.99*
• Liverpool to Paris from £14.99*, to Belfast from £22.99* and to Nice from £20.99*
• Edinburgh to Tenerife from £45.99* to Copenhagen from £35.99 and Paris from £26.99
• Glasgow