2007

easyJet launches a new base at Madrid’s Barajas airport.

January
Microsoft and easyJet launch the pioneering ‘easyJet desk top gadget' enabling customers to personalise flight information and booking services using Microsoft Vista technology.
February
easyJet executives, including CEO Andy Harrison, dress up as taxmen to protest at the UK Government’s unprecedented action in retroactively doubling Air Passenger Duty for flights that have already been booked.
April
easyJet calls on the European Union to ban aircraft made before 1990 from flying after 2012. easyJet’s fleet now consists of 130 aircraft with an average age of 2.2 years. An easyJet passenger’s carbon footprint is lower per kilometre than a Toyota Prius.
June
easyJet launches easyJetHolidays, a revolutionary initiative which enables travellers to create personalised holidays.
June
easyJet unveils the design of its ecoJet, a next generation short-haul super-clean aircraft that will cut CO2 emissions by 50% in 2015 when it’s due to be launched.
August
easyJet becomes the first major European airline to offer its customers the opportunity to offset the carbon emissions of their flights by investing exclusively in United Nations-certified projects. Other airlines had offered offset schemes, but never with UN-certified projects.
September
easyJet calls for politicians to scrap Air Passenger Duty in its existing form and replace it with a system that better reflects the environmental impact of a flight.
October
easyJet agrees to acquire GB Airways, a London Gatwick based airline operating to destinations across Southern Europe and North Africa, for £103.5 million.
October
The UK Government announces its intention to reform the structure of Air Passenger Duty to tax aircraft, not passengers from 2009. The move would properly reflect the pollution levels of different aircraft types and the distance flown by those aircraft. The Government later reneged on this promise, choosing instead to continue to tax passengers but not cargo planes, private jets or transfer passengers.
November
easyJet targets the US$ 90 billion European corporate travel market with an innovative distribution deal with Travelport GDS. The ground-breaking development enables corporate travel agencies to view and book easyJet flights within the Global Distribution Systems that are most frequently used to book flights.