Easyjet announces nine new routes

Easyjet has carried 44 million passengers in the past 12 months

Easyjet has announced nine new routes across Europe.

The budget airline will fly from Manchester to Corfu from May and to Athens, and Corsica from August.

Routes between Liverpool and Dubrovnik, Naples and Bordeaux will start in June and flights between Newcastle and Malta will begin in April.

The airline, which carried 44 million passengers last year, also starts new routes between Bristol and Corfu and Bastia at the end of May.

Andy Harrison, Easyjet's chief executive, said the firm was proud to keep growing in Liverpool and Manchester, where additional aircraft will be based, and to boost the local economy by creating much needed jobs.