easyJet is to restart its route between Budapest Airport (BUD) and Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport (LYS). The year-round service will be operated twice-weekly, starting on 21 August 2024. easyJet previously operated the BUD-LYS route pre-pandemic (2019/2020), with an annual seat capacity of almost...

easyJet today celebrated the opening of its new base at Alicante-Elche Miguel Hernández airport. The budget airline claimed the opening of the new hub strengthens its presence in Spain, where it now has four bases. The first flight operated by Alicante-based aircraft and crew took off on Sunday...

easyJet has put more flights on sale for its winter 2024/25 schedule today, meaning over 18 million seats on over 100,000 flights between 1st December and 2nd March 2025 are now available to book across its route network. This includes over 10 million seats to and from the UK across over 57,000 f...

An aviation industry group is calling on the UK government to invest in hydrogen to ensure hydrogen-powered flights "become a reality". The Hydrogen in Aviation (HIA) alliance, whose members include Airbus, easyJet and Rolls-Royce, said it wants to ensure the UK is a global leader in the developm...

easyJet has today inaugurated its newest UK base, at Birmingham Airport, the airline’s ninth UK base and first new base in the UK in more than a decade, creating 140 direct jobs for pilots and crew in the UK and supporting around 1200 jobs in total. Johan Lundgren, CEO of easyJet, said: “We a...

London Luton Airport (LLA) and easyJet have hosted an Accessibility Familiarisation Day, providing passengers with visual or hidden disabilities with an opportunity to experience every step of the passenger journey. More than 30 visitors attended the event to experience check-in, security search,...

DHL Supply Chain has signed a new five-year contract to handle easyJet's ground handling operations at Liverpool John Lennon Airport, it was announced last week. The new contract expands the long-standing partnership between DHL and easyJet, which launched in 2017 when DHL was appointed to manage...

London Southend has today announced that easyJet has put thousands of additional seats on sale to Paris and Palma de Mallorca this summer from the airport. The budget airline will operate an extra Sunday service to Paris Charles de Gaulle between July and August, in addition to its existing flights...

easyJet has today announced two new routes from the UK, including to Salerno’s Amalfi Coast airport, making it the first and only UK airline to operate commercial flights from the airport when they take off from 13th July 2024. On sale for the first time today, the twice-weekly departures from ...

easyJet and Skyscanner, leading travel marketplace have signed a new long-term strategic partnership. The three-year deal continues the companies’ existing relationship, and will provide Skyscanner’s growing, global audience of over 110m monthly users searching for flights with access to easy...

easyJet has been awarded an "industry leading" A- rating by the CDP in light of the budget airline's commitment to reduce its carbon footprint. Achieving "top marks", easyJet said, makes it one of the few airlines globally to receive the A- rating, having previously been graded a B. The low-co...

easyJet has become the first airline partner of the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Iris programme, which is using the latest generation of satellite technology to help modernise air traffic management. The aim of the ESA-led initiative is to optimise flight paths via satellite technology. ESSP, th...

AMETEK MRO AEM, a leading provider of aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO), has secured a 3-year agreement to provide total refurbishment services for easyJet’s first aid kits (FAKs) and supplementary medical kits (SMKs) for its fleet of A320 family aircraft. The Company’s special...

Ryanair, easyJet and Wizz Air are set to push the European market share for budget airlines next year, according to Bloomberg Intelligence's 2024 European Airlines Outlook. The report outlines that low-cost carriers are "intensifying" short to medium-haul competition, and that newer aircraft and la...

In an industry first and following a successful trial, easyJet is equipping all circa. 14,000 of its crew (pilots and cabin crew) with reusable cups and cutlery in a mission to cut down on disposable single use items. In total, the initiative is expected to prevent more than 10 million single use i...