1997
April
easyJet launches its website, easyJet.com, to provide information on the airline - but the first online bookings are not taken for another year.
October
easyJet is awarded its own Air Operator Certificate. Previously, flights had been operated by Air Foyle and GB Airways on behalf of easyJet (easyJet would later acquire GB Airways, in January 2008)
1996
April
easyJet takes delivery of its first wholly-owned aircraft and goes international with services to Amsterdam from London Luton. Services to Nice and Barcelona soon follow.
August
easyJet’s first low fares flight promotion, which ran in the national press, led to over four million calls in four days, blowing up switchboards and leading to the concept of easyJet.com’s online reservation system.
1995
March
easyJet founded by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou. Stelios would later enter the Guinness Book of Records by establishing himself as the world's youngest international scheduled airline chairman when he launched easyJet in 1995 aged 28.
October
easyLand, the first home of easyJet opens at Luton airport.
November
easyJet’s first flights from London Luton to Glasgow (10 November) and Edinburgh (15 November) , supported by the advertising campaign ‘Making flying as affordable as a pair of jeans - £29 one way’. At this time, easyJet had two leased Boeing 737-200 aircraft and essentially acted as a 'virtual airline' which contracted in everything from pilots to check-in staff.
“I remember seeing the first passengers checking in – it was very exciting to be part of something you knew was going to be big and different.” Niema Walker, training team manager