Five Spanish routes have been added by budget carrier Vueling.
It brings the total for the season to 25 direct routes from the UK to Spain, France and Italy.
To celebrate the new services, which take off between April 1 and April 3, Vueling has started a promotional campaign with flights before taxes to/from London, available until April 4.
British Airways' parent company, IAG, is using two new A320Neo aircraft on the routes.
Carolyn Prowse, the chief commercial, strategy, network, and customer officer of Vueling, said that the UK is the company's strongest international market growth for 2022.
We doubled our presence at the airport by adding new routes to Spain and using two new aircraft from April.
Pedro Medina, deputy director of the Spanish Tourist Office (UK) spoke at an event to mark the launch and said that the Pandemic had hit visitor numbers hard but that the focus for the future is on a more sustainable strategy.
Spain registered over 83.5 million international arrivals in 2019, which is huge, but our focus is not to recover these numbers.
We are looking at a more long-term tourism strategy which encourages social, environmental and economic sustainable practices.
In the short-term, we are focusing on bringing back quality tourism and rebuilding traveller confidence, while in the mid to long term, we will be identifying and targeting key consumer groups which are aligned to our sustainable objectives.
The summer air capacity is close to the levels of 2019.
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