EasyJet

"Easy Jet" redirects here. For other uses, see Easy Jet (disambiguation).

EasyJet plc
IATA ICAO Call sign
U2 EZY EASY
Founded1995; 29 years ago (1995)
Operating bases
Frequent-flyer programFlight Club
Subsidiaries
Destinations157
Traded as
HeadquartersHangar 89, London Luton Airport, Luton, England, United Kingdom
Key people
FounderSir Stelios Haji-Ioannou
RevenueIncrease £8,171 million (2023)[2]
Operating incomeIncrease £476 million (2023)[2]
Net incomeIncrease £324 million (2023)[2]
Employees16,697 (2023)[3]
Websitewww.easyjet.com

EasyJet plc (styled as easyJet) is a British multinational low-cost airline group headquartered at London Luton Airport.[4] It operates domestic and international scheduled services on 927 routes in more than 34 countries via its affiliate airlines EasyJet UK, EasyJet Switzerland, and EasyJet Europe.[5] The company employs circa 13,000 people, based throughout Europe but mainly in the UK.[6] EasyJet plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Since its establishment in 1995, EasyJet has expanded through a combination of acquisitions,[7][8] and base openings fuelled by consumer demand for low-cost air travel. The group, along with associate companies EasyJet UK, EasyJet Europe and EasyJet Switzerland, operates 321 aircraft. It has 29 bases across Europe, the largest being Gatwick.[9] In 2022, the airline carried more than 69.7 million passengers,[10] making it the second-largest budget airline in Europe by number of passengers carried, behind Ryanair.[11]

EasyJet was featured in the television series Airline, broadcast on ITV (1998–2007), which followed the airline's operations in London Luton and later at other bases. Its pilot training scheme was the subject of another ITV television series, easyJet: Inside the Cockpit, which premiered in August 2017.[12]

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  2. ^ a b c "Annual Results 2023" (PDF). EasyJet. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Easyjet vs Ryanair – Statistics 2023/2024". airtravelgenius.com. Air Travel Genius. Retrieved 11 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Company Profile". Uk.reuters.com. Archived from the original on 8 October 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
  5. ^ "What we do". corporate.easyjet.com. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  6. ^ "What we do". EasyJet. Retrieved 16 February 2023.
  7. ^ "EasyJet buys Go for £374m". BBC News. 16 May 2002. Archived from the original on 17 September 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  8. ^ "EasyJet agrees to buy GB Airways". BBC News. 25 October 2007. Archived from the original on 6 March 2010. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  9. ^ "Annual report and accounts 2016" (PDF). EasyJet. p. 13. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2017.
  10. ^ "EasyJet passengers 2022". Statista. Retrieved 26 November 2023.
  11. ^ "Annual Report 2009" (PDF). Ryanair. p. 3. Retrieved 25 January 2010.
  12. ^ "ITV commissions ground-breaking documentary following easyJet's rookie pilots from ITN Productions". ITN. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2017.