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14 May 2012 easyJet makes child’s play of kids lunch pack onboard
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, today announced that it has launched a new kid’s lunch pack onboard this month.
09 May 2012 2012 Half Year Results
Information relating to easyJet’s 2012 Half Year Results is available here.
03 May 2012 Delivering for the passenger - a vision for London Luton Airport
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline and biggest operator at London Luton Airport, has today launched its strategic vision for London Luton Airport.
01 May 2012 easyJet launches three new routes from London Southend Airport
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has launched (1 May) two new routes to the Spanish cities of Palma and Malaga from London Southend Airport.
30 Apr 2012 easyJet flights to Kefalonia take to the skies
easyJet, the UK's largest airline, has announced its new route from London Gatwick to Kefalonia today.
26 Apr 2012 easyJet increases capacity and confirms new route at Newcastle International Airport
easyJet, Newcastle’s largest airline, has welcomed the arrival of a new £20m Airbus A320 aircraft today which will increase capacity on its routes from the North East airport.
25 Apr 2012 easyJet Parliamentary Reception
On Wednesday 25 April, easyJet held its annual Parliamentary Reception at the House of Commons, hosted by Henry Smith – the MP for Crawley.
20 Apr 2012 easyJet is to become first low cost carrier to launch flights between London and Luxembourg taking on the BA and Luxair duopoly.
easyJet, the UK's largest airline, has today announced that it plans to start services to Luxembourg from London Gatwick from 29 October 2012.
20 Apr 2012 easyJet launches nine new routes
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has announced it will launch nine new routes across its UK network from Winter 2012. All are key city pairs which are popular with business travellers.
20 Apr 2012 easyJet launches new Italian route from London Southend Airport
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has today announced that it will begin operating a new route from London Southend Airport to Venice, the first Italian route from the new airport.
20 Apr 2012 easyJet launches three new routes from London Gatwick Airport
easyJet, Gatwick’s largest airline, has today announced that it will begin operating three new routes from London Gatwick Airport this Autumn, bringing its total number of destinations to 97 from the south east base.
19 Apr 2012 easyJet launches new route between Belfast and Birmingham
easyJet, Northern Ireland’s largest airline, has today announced a new route from Belfast International Airport to Birmingham Airport.
17 Apr 2012 easyJet launches Manchester to Tel Aviv route
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has today announced that it will begin operating a year-round service to Tel Aviv from Manchester this autumn with the inaugural flight taking off on 1 November.
16 Apr 2012 easyJet and Booking.com strike new hotel agreement
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has signed an exclusive agreement with Europe’s (and the world’s), hotel reservation leader, Booking.com.
05 Apr 2012 easyJet appoints new Head of Flight Operations
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, today announced that it has appointed Brian Tyrrell as its new Head of Flight Operations.
02 Apr 2012 easyJet celebrates first take off from London Southend Airport
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, is today celebrating its inaugural flight from London Southend Airport.
30 Mar 2012 easyJet launches Winter Schedule with 259 routes
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, launches its winter schedule this week with low-fare seats now available throughout October and February half-term as well as across the festive period on 259 routes from its 11 UK bases.
27 Mar 2012 easyJet flights to Iceland take off from Luton Airport
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has today begun operating its new route from London Luton Airport to Reykjavik in Iceland.
26 Mar 2012 easyJet’s inaugural flight celebrates the launch of the first new airport in the south east for decades
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, will today celebrate the launch of its new base at London Southend Airport, once the third busiest in the UK, now the first new airport in the south east for decades.
26 Mar 2012 easyJet launches ad campaign to mark the start of its London Southend flights
easyJet has launched a new Essex focused outdoor and print advertising campaign to highlight the airline's flights from London Southend Airport to ten destinations across Europe.
26 Mar 2012 easyJet trading update and pre-close statement for the six months to 31 March 2012
The strength of easyJet’s network, focus on the customer, excellent operational performance, disciplined capital allocation and rigorous cost control combined with exceptionally low levels of disruption has meant that easyJet’s financial performance in the first half of the year is expected to exceed the guidance given at the 27 January First Quarter Interim Management Statement.
21 Mar 2012 Airline CEO’s Budget Response: easyJet, IAG, Ryanair and Virgin Atlantic
Responding to today's budget, Carolyn McCall, Willie Walsh, Michael O'Leary and Steve Ridgway, jointly said:
“At a time when the Government talks about creating jobs and growth, its blinkered insistence on further increases in Air Passenger Duty achieves precisely the opposite.
16 Mar 2012 easyJet celebrates 100th engine overhaul
easyJet, the UK's largest airline, was delighted to attend a celebration event in Cardiff yesterday to mark the 100th easyJet engine to be serviced at GE Aviation Wales.
12 Mar 2012 Shadow Secretary of State for Transport visits easyJet
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, was delighted to welcome the Shadow Secretary of State for Transport – Maria Eagle MP to its European headquarters in Luton today.
12 Mar 2012 £500 flight tax prepares to land, warn airline CEOs
Families are facing taxes of up to £500 to fly to some of the most popular holiday destinations, the UK’s four leading airlines warned today (Monday, March 12).
24 Feb 2012 easyJet celebrates a decade of service at London Gatwick Airport
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, today celebrates 10 years since its first flight took off from Gatwick. In the decade since that first flight to Barcelona easyJet has become the biggest operator at the airport.
23 Feb 2012 Result of AGM
easyJet announces that the Annual General Meeting of the Company was held earlier today. All the resolutions were decided by poll.
23 Feb 2012 easyJet Annual General Meeting 2012 Chairman's Statement
Speaking at the Company's Annual General Meeting in Luton today, Sir Michael Rake, Chairman of easyJet plc, said: 2011 was a record year for easyJet - it achieved its best ever operational performance, highest ever passengers numbers, high levels of customer satisfaction, highest ever profits and will pay its first ever dividends of around £200m to shareholders.
23 Feb 2012 Chairman’s opening statement at AGM 2012
Speaking at the Company's Annual General Meeting in Luton today, Sir Michael Rake, Chairman of easyJet plc, said: “Good morning everyone. It is with great pleasure that I address this meeting of shareholders today. When I became easyJet Chairman in 2010 I was convinced of the potential of a business that had achieved so much in 14 years and I am pleased two years later to report substantial further progress in the development of the business and in delivering tangible returns to shareholders.

21 Feb 2012 easyJet to sponsor 2012 Southend Air Festival
easyJet, the UK's largest airline, today announced it will be the lead sponsor for the 2012 Southend Air Festival.
13 Feb 2012 Response to comments made by Stelios on 11 February 2012
Response to comments made by Stelios on 11 February 2012
10 Feb 2012 easyJet pledges support for European 112 Emergency Number campaign
easyJet, one of Europe's leading airlines, has pledged its support for the European 112 Emergency Number campaign. 112 day is celebrated annually across Europe on 11 February and is dedicated to raising awareness for the 112 European-wide emergency number.
09 Feb 2012 Carolyn McCall’s speech to the Aviation Club
I’d like to say a few words about easyJet’s vision and our strategy. To do so, it’s worth a short summary of where we’ve come from.
09 Feb 2012 easyJet first airline to trial electric green taxiing system by Safran and Honeywell
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, in collaboration with Honeywell and Safran, has today announced that it will be the first airline to support the development and trial of the innovative new electric green taxiing system (EGTS).
08 Feb 2012 easyJet to fly Iceland route all year round
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline today announced that flights from London to Iceland will continue to operate throughout the winter 2012 schedule. easyJet’s commitment to a full year service from London Luton Airport to Reykjavik is in response the passenger demand on the route.
08 Feb 2012 easyJet welcomes the support of ISS and ABI for AGM resolutions
Mike Rake, Chairman of easyJet, said today
03 Feb 2012 easyJet rescue package for Malev passengers
Following the announcement that Malev has suspended all of its operations, easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, will offer those passengers stranded at their destinations, a special rescue fee of 60 Euros (1) to return home.
31 Jan 2012 Chairman of easyJet, Sir Michael Rake's speech at the airline's Capital Markets Day
Chairman's investor day speech
31 Jan 2012 Lorraine Chase returns to Luton Airport to support the ‘Love Luton’ city status bid
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline and biggest operator at London Luton Airport, has joined forces with Lorraine Chase to build on Luton’s momentum for its ‘Love Luton’ campaign. The airline called upon Lorraine Chase to officially christen its new ‘Love Luton’ named aircraft as part of the town’s efforts to secure city status.
27 Jan 2012 easyJet rescue package for Spanair passengers in case Spanair announces its operations cease
In response to passengers expressed concerns for their travel in reaction to Spanair possibly suspending all its operations from midnight on 27 January 2012, easyJet, operator of Europe’s No 1 air transport network, announces it is ready to offer its assistance to worried or potentially stranded passengers at Barcelona, with a special rescue fee of €50 to return home to Berlin/ Schoenefeld.
27 Jan 2012 easyJet rescue package for Spanair passengers in case Spanair announces its operations cease
In response to passengers expressed concerns for their travel in reaction to Spanair possibly suspending all its operations from midnight on 27 January 2012, easyJet, operator of Europe’s No 1 air transport network, announces it is ready to offer its assistance to worried or potentially stranded passengers at Berlin/ Schoenefeld, with a special rescue fee of €50 to return home to Barcelona.
27 Jan 2012 easyJet announces the launch of route Madrid-Bilbao for Monday 30th January
In response to passengers expressed concerns for their travel in reaction to Spanair possibly suspending all its operations from midnight on 27 January 2012, easyJet announces it is ready to offer its assistance to worried passengers or potentially stranded passengers on the Madrid-Bilbao route by bringing forward the launch of its flight from 19 February to start operating on Monday 30 January 2012 with a special rescue fee of €50.
26 Jan 2012 Quarter 1 2012 Interim Management Statement
Information relating to easyJet’s 2012 Q1 interim management statement is available here.
23 Jan 2012 easyJet continues its inroads into the business travel market by signing a commercial agreement with American Express Global Business Travel
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, today announced it has signed a pan European commercial agreement with American Express Global Business Travel. The new deal means that easyJet will be working with American Express as one of its first Travel Management Company partners.
18 Jan 2012 easyJet signs corporate travel deal with FCm Travel Solutions and Corporate Traveller
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, today announced it has signed a new deal with leading UK travel management businesses, FCm Travel Solutions and Corporate Traveller.
17 Jan 2012 easyJet increases capacity on Newcastle routes
easyJet, the UK's largest and Newcastle's favourite airline, has today announced it will increase capacity on eight of its Newcastle routes with the arrival of a new larger aircraft. easyJet is already the biggest airline operating out of Newcastle.
16 Jan 2012 easyJet welcomes Luton Borough Council’s long term plan for London Luton Airport
Commenting on Luton Borough Council’s long term plan for London Luton Airport, easyJet’s commercial manager Hugh Aitken said:"easyJet welcomes the growth plan for London Luton Airport and the council’s strategic focus on the future."
13 Jan 2012 easyJet introduces administration fee
easyJet has made booking flights with the airline even more transparent.
06 Jan 2012 easyJet launches its biggest sale ever with up to 20% off over 25 million seats
easyJet, the UK's largest airline, has today launched its biggest ever flight sale, with up to 20% off 25 million seats.
03 Jan 2012 Pigs do fly – sales of bacon baguettes take off
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, today published a national poll that has revealed that bacon butties are the number one snack of choice for Brits polling four times more votes than second place cheese on toast.