It’s a choice that has made people cough elsewhere in Brittany. Interested in establishing itself in Brittany, the Spanish airline Volotea has decided to set up its ninth French base in Brest. Present in the city of Ponant since 2013, the low-cost airline will offer twenty destinations from Finistère, compared to seven currently. The news ? Direct connections to Athens (Greece), Barcelona (Spain), Faro (Portugal) and Palermo (Sicily) will be offered from 2024. In total, Volotea will offer 400,000 seats each year, or 20% more than in 2023.
To support its growth, the Spanish company founded in 2012 will base an Airbus A320 plane on the Brest tarmac in April 2024. Volotea promises “around thirty new direct jobs and nearly 170 indirect” thanks to the arrival of this plane. This arrival will make it possible to “decompartmentalise” the sub-prefecture of Finistère, 3.5 hours by train from Paris. A detail which has not escaped Volotea, which wishes to attract a number of Bretons to its planes.
The seven island destinations already offered in Brest had a 95% occupancy rate this year. “Having a based aircraft opens up significant development prospects for us and will allow us to satisfy the strong demand from our travelers looking for direct flights to major European cities,” said Claude Arphexad, director of Brest Bretagne airport. , in a press release.