Happy Birthday easyJet
LONDON, 2014-11-11 — /Travel PR News/ — Today (10 Nov 2014) easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, celebrates 19 years of making travel easy and affordable.
On this day in 1995 the inaugural easyJet flight, carrying 120 excited passengers, departed from London Luton for Glasgow Airport with the strap line ‘making flying as affordable as a pair of jeans – £29 one way’.
Over the past 19 years the airline has remained true to its roots reducing the cost of flying further and has transformed itself from a brightly coloured but unknown airline with two routes into one of Europe’s best-known brands. The airline has revolutionised travel over that time by introducing new destinations that previously were either inaccessible or unaffordable and flying to the main airports at far more reasonable fares.
Last week easyjet launched for sale 26 new routes and now has 226 aircraft flying to 135 airports on over 720 routes in 32 countries. The airline now carries 65 million passengers a year.
Carolyn McCall, easyJet’s Chief Executive commented:
“easyJet has come a long way since that first flight in 1995 to become the UK’s largest airline and this is a testament to the hard work and commitment of the entire easyJet team. It has been an incredible journey and we’re really proud of what easyJet has achieved over the last 19 years.
“Our innovations and commitment to customer service will continue as will the commitment to deliver the best quality service to our customers. We look forward to continuing to provide a fantastic service along with low fares for many more years to come”
easyJet’s nineteen years in numbers
• easyJet is the UK’s largest airline by passenger number
• In 2013, 56% of easyJet passengers originated from outside the UK
• easyJet has a leading presence on Europe’s top 100 routes and at Europe’s 50 largest airports
• Its 226 state-of-the-art aircraft are only 5.5 years old
• An average of 31 million people visit easyJet.com every month – That’s nearly double the amount of people who visit London each year!
• 1.4million visits to our flight tracker a month
• Average 7.2 million visits to the app a month – that’s more than the combined population of Rome and Berlin!
• Over 65 million passengers in the last 12 months – that’s more than the population of the United Kingdom!
• Over 571 million seats sold EVER – That’s enough to fill over 3 million Airbus A320 aircraft
• In the peak summer, we operate more than 1,400 flights a day across our network of over 700 routes
For further information, please contact the easyJet Press Office on 01582 525252, log onto www.easyjet.com or follow @easyJet_Press
About easyJet:
easyJet operates Europe’s No. 1 air transport network with a leading presence on Europe’s top 100 routes and at Europe’s 50 largest airports.
easyJet carries over 65 million passengers annually, of which more than 12 million are travelling on business. easyJet flies over 200 aircraft with more than 700 routes on sale across 32 countries and over 130 airports. More than 300 million Europeans live within one hour’s drive of an easyJet airport, more than any other airline.
The airline takes sustainability seriously. easyJet invests in the latest technology, operates efficiently and fills most of its seats which means that an easyJet passenger’s carbon footprint is 22% less than a passenger on a traditional airline, flying the same aircraft on the same route.
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