LOW-COST airline easyJet is expanding its Northern Ireland operations with three new routes connecting Belfast International Airport with Geneva,
Inverness and Palma (Majorca).The Inverness service will be daily and the Geneva and Palma services will
be four times weekly.
The new routes start on Friday July 1, 2005, with fares to Inverness from £17.99 one way (£30.98 return including taxes and changes), while Geneva and Palma fares are from £22.99 and £27.99 one way respectively.
Seats for all three routes are now on sale.
Belfast International Airport Ltd received assistance for the new easyJet Geneva route from Invest NI subsidiary company Air Route Development (NI)
Ltd, which was established by Government to promote economic development in Northern Ireland through improved air access. The scheme also assisted the airport in the establishment of easyJet's new services to Paris and Nice.

During the last six months over 120,000 passengers haven taken advantage of easyJet's four new direct European routes and sales for the rest of the
winter remain strong, says the airline. The introduction of these new routes will increase the number of aircraft
operating through Belfast International Airport to eight, with 84 daily services to a choice of 17 routes.

With close to three million passengers travelling through the Belfast base in the last 12 months, it has become one of easyJet's fastest growing bases,
an increase of nine per cent compared to passengers carried last year.

Ray Webster, easyJet Chief Executive, said: "Following the success of our direct services to Spain and France, easyJet is delighted to be adding
Geneva, Inverness and Palma to our network. "EasyJet views Belfast as a vibrant and highly attractive market with great
potential and we look forward to announcing more new routes to main city destination airports in the near future," added the easyJet executive.