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easyJet revenues soar despite snow chaos
EasyJet has managed to post strong revenue growth, despite its schedules being severely disrupted over the past month due to the big winter freeze. The budget carrier cited higher load factors, a hike in non-UK passengers and greater capacity for contributing to double-digit revenue growth over the past quarter.
Easyjet fills Aer Lingus Gatwick slots
EasyJet will partly fill the slots at Gatwick Airport which will be vacated by Aer Lingus later this year. The budget airline is adding three aircraft to its fleet at Gatwick but has not revealed where they will fly.
Snow chaos continues to gridlock UK
Temperatures lower than Alaska continue to plunge the UK into Christmas travel gridlock, with scores of flights from airports across the country cancelled, as well as mayhem on the roads and trains due to snow and ice.
easyJet extends rescue package for Flyglobespan passengers
Following the announcement that Flyglobespan has suspended its operations, easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has extended its rescue package for stranded passengers to ensure they can get back to the UK for Christmas.
easyJet boss to quit
Easyjet’s chief executive is to quit the airline in June after four years to “seek new challenges”. Andy Harrison will stay in post for the next six months to give the budget airline time to find a replacement,
900,000 Britons to jet off with easyJet this Christmas
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, expects to fly a record number of passengers from the UK this festive period. Each year easyJet has seen an increase in travellers taking advantage of its great low-fares and 2009 will see a higher number of passengers than ever before.
easyJet offers online check-in to passengers with hold baggage
easyJet, Europe’s leading low-fares airline, has today launched an online check-in facility for passengers with hold baggage. The airline has allowed passengers travelling with hand baggage to check in online for some time, but now passengers with hold baggage also have the opportunity to do so.
easyJet call for ‘green’ aircraft
easyJet has called for mandatory emission standards to ensure a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions from the next generation of aircraft. The budget airline claims the greener aircraft would be much more beneficial than continuing to tax the industry.
easyJet expands further into Europe
easyJet has announced 10 new routes for next year including three from the UK to Cagliari, Helsinki and Malta. The 10 extra services take the total of easyJet routes to 449, across 112 airports in 28 countries.
easyJet demands legislation for cleaner aircraft
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, today became the first airline to call for tough, mandatory emission standards for aircraft that would lead to a 40% reduction in CO2 emissions from the next generation of aircraft.
EasyJet distances itself from Holocaust fashion shoot fiasco
EasyJet has confirmed it is withdrawing all copies of its in-flight magazine easyJet Traveller following the publication of a fashion spread photographed at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. But the airline has also tried to distance itself from the scandal, claiming it was not aware of it until it appeared in print, and also hinted it would terminate its contract with Ink Publishing
Tories turn to Stelios for easyPolitics
The UK prime minister apparent has turned to easyJet’s low-frills model as a way to run the public sector in recessionary times. David Cameron believes that no-frills politics is the way forward, having looked at the Sir Stelios’s success in starting up a tightly-run business that is used by everyone from the royalty to hen parties.