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Interviewing has started for the new positions, which will bring the carrier's total payroll in Barcelona up to 250 staff members.
Three Airbus A320 aircraft will be stationed permanently in El Prat airport from February next year in what the general manager of the company for the Spain division, Javier Gándara, calls 'a natural step'.
Barcelona is a market the firm is very familiar with, as El Prat is its most-visited Spanish airport, meaning opening a base there makes business sense, Gándara admits.
The summer 2016 season is not yet open for booking, so easyJet cannot confirm to date whether or not it will open new routes from El Prat airport, but with three craft located there year-round the airline will be able to offer a better service to its business passengers, who represent 20% of the company's sales.
It means the carrier will be able to run flights in the early hours of the morning and during the last slot at night, meaning commercial travellers can fly across the country or abroad for meetings and negotiations and then return home the same day.
EasyJet started flying to and from Barcelona in 1996, and currently links 14 European airports with the north-eastern Spanish city, transporting 2.8 million passengers a year.
Spain has always been a key market for easyJet, says Gándara, and its having opened a base in Madrid which it later shut down was 'not a mistake' but 'the right decision at the time'.
The new base in Barcelona is not linked to the closure of the Madrid operations centre, because the two cities represent 'different markets' – easyJet has been flying to and from El Prat for 'longer than practically anyone else' and it is a firmly-established destination, meaning the carrier 'happily welcomes the competition', the general manager reveals.
EasyJet will become the third-largest company at El Prat airport when it opens its base, and the second-largest in T2, which saw 12 million passengers passing through its gates last year, says Barcelona airport's manager Sonia Corrochano.
The opening of the El Prat centre will mean easyJet has bases in eight countries.
It already runs flights to and from 18 Spanish airports, from which it operates 143 routes to seven different countries.
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