easyJet today announced plans to commence operations at Birmingham International Airport with the introduction of two new routes connecting Birmingham with Geneva and Grenoble.
As the second largest city in the UK, Birmingham has a huge catchment area and a demand for low-fare services and as a result the airline expects to carry 45,000 passengers on these two new routes within the first season of operation.
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easyJet PLC’s chief executive Andy Harrison rejected predictions from Ryanair Holdings PLC that the airline market is heading for a serious downturn.
Economic indicators across Europe pointed to continued growth for low-cost carriers despite a recent softening in demand for air travel, Harrison told the Guardian.
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The new daily service between London Luton and Vienna commences on 29 October and is the first time the airline has entered the Austria market, which is expected to be particularly popular as a year round city break destination as well as a ski gateway in the winter.
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Budget airline easyJet say they have a new aircraft design which would emit half the carbon dioxide of today’s planes.
At the moment it’s only a model – but the budget airline easyJet claims that a revolutionary eco-friendly plane design could take to the skies in just eight years time.
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Budget airline Ryanair plans to double its passenger number to 100 million within five years, chief executive Michael O’Leary said today.
“‘We are still the fastest-growing airline in Europe and I expect that we double from 50 million passengers this year to 100 million passengers in five years’ time,'” Mr O’Leary said.
The airline also plans to increase its number of bases over the next five years. “‘The number of bases will be doubled from 19 or 20 to about 40,'” O’Leary said.
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EasyJet became the latest airline to warn of difficult trading conditions yesterday as shares across the sector came under pressure.
The no frills airline said its passenger load factor – a measure of how full its planes are – fell to 83.1% last month compared with 86.4% last year. Shares in the company fell 7%, closing 49p down at 631p. Other stock in traditional carriers such as British Airways and Lufthansa also fell. Analysts warned that stronger profits are encouraging airlines to buy more planes and fly more routes, flooding the market with capacity and putting fares under pressure. EasyJet admitted yesterday that fare revenue was one of its biggest concerns.
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Low-cost airline easyJet has called on European governments to remove around 700 of the oldest aircraft from Europe’s skies by banning any aircraft built before 1990 from operating within the European Union after 1st January 2012.
The no-frills carrier argues that older aircraft are far less fuel efficient and, therefore, more environmentally damaging than newer planes. As such, easyJet has called for a strict age-limiting policy to be implemented on aircraft used by European airlines.
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No-frills airline easyJet has said it welcomes the European Commission’s decision to limit the abuse of anti-competitive Public Service Obligation (PSO) routes in Italy.
The decision follows official complaints by easyJet and other airlines against an Italian decree that was imposed last year to create monopolies on the 16 most important routes between mainland Italy and Sardinia.
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Low-budget airline easyJet has announced that passenger numbers rose by 12.3 per cent during March.
According to today’s figures, 3.1 million people flew with the airline last month, compared to 2.8 million in March 2005.
But despite the significant increase, easyJet’s load factor, the proportion of seats being filled on their flights, fell by 1.9 percentage points to 84.4 per cent.
On a 12-month rolling basis the no-frills airline added that passenger numbers went up by 11.7 per cent to 34.5
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EasyJet, which calls itself Europe’s leading airline, appears to have lost interest in Malta, The Malta Independent on Sunday has learnt.
Nonetheless, industry sources said negotiations have not been cut off completely.
Last August, EasyJet had submitted an application to operate from London Luton and Mulhouse-Basel. The airline had kept a very low profile compared to competitors Ryanair, which were negotiating with the Maltese government during the same period.
Minister for Tourism and Culture Francis Zammit Dimech had said EasyJet wanted to operate from Gatwick, but the government could not provide the airline with market support to operate from this major airport, as it is not one of the underserved routes.
source: Malta Independent
