easyJet Begins The 1st Flight From Liverpool Airport To This Popular European Destination
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On 9 June, easyJet will inaugurated the first flight from Liverpool Airport to Split, Croatia’s second most populous city. Split is famous for its seaside location and Roman heritage. It appears to be the first time any scheduled airline has served the city pair, at least in the past two decades or so.
The route is served on Mondays and Fridays, great days of the week for a long weekend. The last flight of the season is on 21 October. The 156-seat A319 is exclusively scheduled. Split is easyJet’s new third-longest A319 route from Liverpool this summer, behind Malaga and Faro (flights on those routes are, of course, mainly on A320ceos).
Liverpool to Split: Mondays, 16:40-20:25 (local); Fridays: 09:45-13:30 (local)
Split to Liverpool: Mondays, 21:10-23:10 (local); Fridays, 14:15-16:15 (local)
Split Is Liverpool’s 2nd Croatian Destination
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The city on the Dalmatian coast joins Liverpool flights to Zadar, which Ryanair serves 2x weekly. The ultra-low-cost carrier’s first flight from the Merseyside airport to Zadar took place in 2013, when it only lasted one season. The route returned in 2022 and has operated between June and September ever since. In 2024, data from the UK Civil Aviation Authority suggests Ryanair carried 11,849 passengers to/from Zadar and filled 87% of available seats.
Previously, Liverpool had Croatia flights to Dubrovnik (between 2009 and 2010) and Pula (2018-2020). easyJet, Liverpool’s largest carrier by flights, operated both routes. Its Liverpool-Dubrovnik flights started in June 2009, a month after its first UK service to that ever-popular destination (from London Gatwick). Its inaugural Manchester-Dubrovnik flight occurred in 2017.
easyJet Now Has 31 Peak Summer Routes From Liverpool
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The carrier’s June to August 2025 network from Liverpool is shown above. In the first week of August, easyJet has 163 weekly departures, up from 160 in the same period last year. It is Liverpool’s largest airline, with Ryanair second (152 weekly).
easyJet’s median frequency per route is 3x weekly. Sixteen destinations are served 3x or 2x weekly, including Split. Only five routes have more than a daily service: Belfast International (25x weekly), Faro (2x daily), Palma de Mallorca (2x daily), Alicante (11x weekly) and Malaga (11x weekly).