Hauts-de-France airports: new destinations for getting away from it all this summer

Far from the stress, the congestion and the price of car parks in the major Parisian platforms, planning your departure on vacation from a regional airport can allow you to save time and money.

After Brittany, and Toulouse, focus on the new direct flights which open for the summer of 2022 from the favorite airports of the inhabitants of Hauts-de-France.

From the two Brussels platforms to the new Volotea base in Lille-Lesquin, via the most low-cost Beauvais airport: many new connections will allow you to reach the sun this summer.

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From Lille-Lesquin airport: Varna, Heraklion and Split directly

50 direct flights on the program, including a dozen new or repeat flights: the summer news is loaded at Lille-Lesquin airport.

Starting with the low-cost Spanish company

, which inaugurated its new French base there on April 1.

An Airbus A319 will be parked on the Lille tarmac to operate 16 routes, including 6 new ones:

• Split (Croatia):

  from May 8 with one flight per week.

  
  

• Varna (Bulgaria):

  from May 17, one flight per week.

  
  

• Calvi:

  from June 4, one flight per week.

  
  

• Palermo (Italy):

  from May 27, one flight per week.

  
  

• Majorca (Spain):

  from May 16, one flight per week.

  
  

• Cagliari (Italy):

  from June.

Volotea has also just resumed its domestic flights from

to

,

,

and

(4 to 6 flights per week).

Also note the opening of a flight in October 2022 between Lille and

(2 flights per week).

SEVERAL NEW CONNECTIONS OR RESUMES FLIGHTS ARE ALSO TO BE NOTED FROM LILLE:

• Heraklion (Greece):

  by the Greek company Sky Express, one flight per week every Sunday until October 2.

  
  

• Majorca (Spain):

  by easyJet, from May 1, 2 flights per week.

  
  

• Marseille:

  by Transavia, since March 27.

Finally, note the resumption, after two years in slow motion, of the programs of the Belgian company TUI Fly (19 destinations from Lille to Greece, Spain, Morocco and Portugal), but also of Air Algérie flights to Algiers from April 12 (4 flights per week).

Lille-Lesquin Airport, Airport Road, 59810 Lesquin.

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From Brussels-Zaventem airport: Aruba, Miami and Ouagadougou directly

From Brussels-Zaventem, you can reach top destinations such as Málaga, Majorca and Crete.

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On March 27, the major Brussels-National airport launched its summer season with

, many new connections and the arrival of new airlines.

• Aruba (Caribbean)

  : with TUI Fly.

  Last winter, flights to Curacao (Air Belgium) and Havana (TUI Fly) had already opened to the Caribbean.

  
  

• Ohrid (North Macedonia):

  with TUI Fly.

  
  

• Zadar (Croatia):

  with TUI Fly.

  
  

• Kalamata (Greece):

  with Aegan.

NEW LINKS:

• Miami

  (USA, with TUI Fly)

• Ouagadougou

  (Burkina-Fasso, with Brussels Airlines)

• Conakry

  (Guinea, with Brussels Airlines)

• Mytilene

  and

  Samos

  (Greece, with Brussels Airlines).

Note also the arrival on the Brussels platform of

, which will base a Boeing 737-800 there this summer offering 16 weekly flights to Southern Europe, but also the arrivals of the Norwegian company

, and the Icelandic company

(formerly Wow Air).

After two years of absence,

and

are also resuming their transatlantic flights respectively to New York-JFK and Montreal.

In total, 185 destinations will be accessible directly from Brussels for the summer of 2022, a level close to the pre-crisis level (202 destinations in 2019).

Brussels-National Airport, Leopoldlaan, 1930 Zaventem, Belgium.

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From Brussels-Charleroi airport: 20 new Ryanair lines

Giving pride of place to low-cost airlines,

airport is appreciated by travelers from Hauts-de-France for its fares and its bus services from the major northern cities.

From spring 2022 and for the entire summer season, 20 new routes will be launched there, all operated by the ultra low-cost Irish company

(which, in total, offers 105 routes from Charleroi).

Here they are :

• Billund (Denmark)

• Brive (France)

• Catania (Italy)

• Genoa (Italy)

• Helsinki (Finland)

• Kaunas (Lithuania)

• Liverpool (England)

• Lourdes (France)

• Madeira (Portugal)

• Menorca (Spain)

• Roma Fiumicino (Italy)

• Poznan (Poland)

• Sibiu (Romania)

• Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

• Suceava (Romania)

• Stockholm (Sweden)

• Trapani (Italy)

• Tetouan (Morocco)

• Trieste (Italy)

• Vitoria (Spain)

Brussels-Charleroi Airport, rue des Frères Wright 8, 6041 Charleroi, Belgium.

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From Paris-Beauvais airport: 13 new Ryanair lines

Located in the Oise in the town of Tillé, the 10th French airport in terms of passengers is also seeing its share of new low-cost lines (traffic on which it depends almost 100%) from this month of April.

The main company operating in Beauvais, Ryanair, is also launching 13 new routes, some of which are already operational:

• Madeira (Portugal)

• Santiago (Spain)

• Leeds (England)

• Agadir (Morocco)

• Málaga (Spain)

• Edinburgh (Scotland)

• Gdansk (Poland)

• Helsinki (Finland)

• Liverpool (England)

• Riga (Latvia)

• Santander (Spain)

• Tallinn (Estonia)

• Torino (Italy)

Paris-Beauvais Airport, Airport Road, 60000 Tillé.

airportparisbeauvais.com.

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