LUXE Serendipity magazine

East Midlands Airport is ready to welcome almost 150,000 customers over the Easter break, heading to around 70 popular destinations in Europe and North Africa.

It’s the airport of choice for millions of people in the region due to the ease of reaching it by road and the effortless experience it provides in the terminal, giving everyone a stress-free start to their holidays.

Around 7,400 people will fly through the airport on Thursday 2 April, the busiest day of the Easter half-term holidays from March 30 to April 10. There will be 42 departures that day to a range of top destinations including Malaga, Rhodes, Alicante, Faro, Palma, Lanzarote, Barcelona, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Rome, Ibiza, Valencia, Krakow and Dublin.

And those travelling at Easter will be among the first to benefit from a whole range of brand new facilities the airport has developed over the winter:

• A new restaurant, Terracotta Italian Kitchen, is set to open to customers for the first time on March 31, offering a fresh dining experience at the airport
• WHSmith is opening its new one-stop shop in the departure lounge on April 2, offering everything from books and meal deals to audio equipment and health & beauty products
• A newly-opened Little Flyers room provides a colourful, fun and bright space for young travellers complete with a role play plane on a ‘runway’ with airport-themed games on the walls
• A new quiet room and sensory pod launched recently for people with anxiety and neurodivergent conditions provide calm spaces away from the main airport bustle
• A transformed, bright and welcoming security hall with next-generation scanners make the whole process quicker and smoother, keeping average wait times below 15 minutes
• A new-look welcome home in the immigration hall, along with quicker self-serve key collection for Meet & Greet customers
• New toilet facilities throughout the terminal.

East Midlands Airport’s Managing Director, Steve Griffiths, said: “The Easter holidays signal the start of our summer season and are the first big getaway of the year. We continue to serve popular holiday destinations in Europe and beyond and remain the airport of choice for millions of people from around the region every year.

“We’re pleased to be able to offer significant improvements to the customer experience throughout the terminal from this Easter onwards as we continue our £120m investment programme. It’s part of our ongoing commitment to make East Midlands Airport the easy way to get away.”