Low-cost airline easyJet launched three new routes from Bristol Airport yesterday.

The firm is now offering scheduled services to Madrid, Rome and Budapest. Valencia and Geneva will be offered later this year, bringing the number of destinations served from Bristol up to 25.

Ed Winter, chief operating officer with easyJet, said: "We expect 132,000 passengers to travel on these new routes in the first year.

"We are also negotiatiing with a number of Eurppean airports with a view to introducing further destingations from Bristol."