As Easter approaches, CEO of The Advantage Travel Partnership, Julia La Bue-Said has commented on how Easter 2023 is looking for the travel industry.
Julia Lo Bue-Said, CEO of The Advantage Travel Partnership, said “The UK is gearing up for a busy Easter break for travel. Across our travel agent partners we are seeing Easter weekend bookings up 6 percent and are expecting Easter bookings this year to significantly outperform 2019. Across our travel agent partners we’ve seen a significant increase in bookings for Easter and the airports are expecting large numbers to travel over the four-day weekend. Stansted for example is expecting to see 175,000 people departing from the airport over just the bank holiday weekend and Manchester is expecting 300,000 passengers arriving and departing and will operate 1,904 flights over the four-day period.
The top five destinations that our members have been seeing are Lanzarote, Alicante, Majorca, Crete and Orlando. There is undeniably a huge appetite for travel this year and the inclusion of the USA in this suggests that people are continuing to prioritise travel despite the cost-of-living crisis. For those who are concerned about costs and are still wanting to travel this Easter, we recommend booking with a travel agent who can find you the best value deals for their budget.
For anyone travelling over this period worried about strikes, we do expect that the majority of travellers will not experience delays as a result of contingency measures that are normally put in place to minimise disruption. However, we recommend travellers leaving plenty of time to get to the airport and keep up to date on your flight time and any potential delays by checking the airline or departure schedule online.”
