It is on the occasion of the celebration of its 26 years of presence in Nice Côte d’Azur that the company easyJet, the first operator from the Nice platform with nearly one in three passengers now transported, announced this Wednesday the opening of a line to and from Copenhagen for next summer. This will be the fortieth easyjet destination from the Côte d’Azur airport. Knowing that other companies had already been heading to Copenhagen for some time.
Easyjet becomes the first airline at Nice airport
Forty destinations are now offered from Nice airport by orange and white planes. In 1996, easyJet, then a brand new European company, launched its first international routes: Amsterdam, Barcelona and Nice. In 2012, when the company was already a major player in Nice, a base was created with three Airbus planes. A decade later, the offer has almost doubled, going from 23 lines to 40 today, including 10 domestic lines.
How many planes?
Five aircraft are based in Nice, with more than 200 local employees all working under French contract. “The base has enabled the creation of thousands of indirect jobs” welcomes Nice airport in a joint press release with easyjet before adding “more than 55 million passengers have been transported by easyJet since the start of its operations in Nice.”