easyJet will close out its remaining flying at Leeds/Bradford Airport in early January 2027, ending the low-cost carrier's presence at the West Yorkshire airport as its last three routes are progressively withdrawn from the schedule.
According to schedule data published by AeroRoutes, the airline's remaining Leeds/Bradford services fall away one by one over the northern winter 2026/27 season. Leeds/Bradford-Barcelona, currently listed at two weekly flights with the Airbus A319, is scheduled to operate until 4 November 2026. Leeds/Bradford-Paris Charles de Gaulle, at two weekly with A319 and A320 equipment, runs until 1 January 2027. The last route standing is Leeds/Bradford-Dublin, operated four times weekly with the A319 and A320, which is scheduled through 4 January 2027.
The airline had already thinned the airport's schedule ahead of that. A seasonal Leeds/Bradford-Geneva service, previously loaded as a once-weekly operation for the period 23 January to 13 February 2027, has been removed from the schedule in recent weeks.
A steady retreat rather than a sudden exit
The pattern visible in the schedule filings is a phased wind-down rather than an abrupt cancellation. Each route is allowed to run to a natural seasonal end point, which limits the number of passengers holding forward bookings when the flying stops and lets the airline redeploy aircraft and crew in step with the winter schedule change. That is the standard way European low-cost carriers exit a station: capacity is reallocated to bases where aircraft utilisation and yields are stronger, and the last remaining route is usually the one with the most reliable year-round demand, which in this case is Dublin.
What Leeds/Bradford loses
Leeds/Bradford is the principal airport for West Yorkshire and has historically depended on low-cost carriers for the bulk of its short-haul network. Losing an operator's remaining routes removes a competitive option on the Dublin, Paris and Barcelona markets for passengers in the Leeds and Bradford catchment, who will otherwise route via Manchester or via other carriers serving the airport.
The A319 in easyJet's fleet
The Airbus A319 has been the workhorse of easyJet's thinner routes for years. It is the shortest member of the A320 family, a single-aisle twinjet with two underwing engines and small upswept wingtip fences, and its lower seat count makes it well suited to regional airports where filling a larger A320 or A321neo is harder. easyJet has been progressively replacing A319s with larger, more efficient A320neo family aircraft, a fleet shift that tends to push marginal regional routes out of the network because the replacement aircraft need more passengers to break even.
Schedules for future seasons remain subject to change, and airlines routinely revise filings before they are locked in. As things stand, however, the published data points to easyJet's Leeds/Bradford operation closing in the first week of January 2027.
Sources: AeroRoutes. Featured image: AI-generated by AviationShop. By Elena Vargas.
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