Volotea (V7, Barcelona El Prat) has announced Bordeaux Mérignac and Palermo International as new bases from summer 2013. It already operates from bases at Nantes and Venice Marco Polo and had temporarily operated an Ibiza base last summer season. It will base two B717-200s in Palermo from March 28, 2013 and will gradually add new routes from there to Florence Peretola, Nantes, Naples Capodichino, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Thira Santorini and Verona. Volotea already serves Palermo from Genoa and Venice Marco Polo and plans to resume seasonal services from Ancona, Bordeaux, Ibiza and Trieste next summer. Two additional B717-200s will be based at Bordeaux and be used to launch new routes from there to Florence Peretola, Munich and Olbia. Volotea already serves Ajaccio, Lyon Grenoble Alpes Isère, Lille Lesquin, Strasbourg Enzheim and Venice Marco Polo from Bordeaux and plans to resume routes to Bastia, Ibiza, Málaga and Toulon next summer.