With snow back on the way to much of the UK this week, easyJet has taken the opportunity to release its winter cheap flights schedule.

Seats are now available throughout October and February half-term as well as across the festive period on 259 routes from its 11 UK bases.

Some 79,000 winter flights are on sale, enabling passengers to secure the best fares early with more than 11.5 million seats available for travel from October 28th 2012 through to February 2013.

Capacity has been added to popular sun and city destinations including Tel Aviv and popular routes such as Istanbul, Sharm El Sheikh, Venice, Nice, Barcelona and Madrid all feature heavily in the schedule.

Ski enthusiasts can also expect the widest and best value choice of destinations to Geneva, Innsbruck, Sofia, Lyon, Salzburg and Grenoble.

easyJet is also continuing to expand its offering to business passengers with routes to Cologne, Naples and Milan available on this year’s winter schedule.

Paul Simmons, easyJet’s UK director, commented: “The launch of our winter cheap flights schedule offers both leisure and business passengers the best choice, best schedule and best availability of flights to 74 low-fare destinations.”

easyJet is considered the World’s Leading Low-cost Airline by the World Travel Awards.