The British airline easyJet on Thursday said it might have lost up to $US1.1 billion in its 2020 fiscal year — its first full-year loss. The airline forecast headline losses before tax of £815 million to £845 million, or $US1.06 billion to $US1.1 billion, for the year that ended September […]

A video shows the moment an EasyJet pilot refused to take off until an asthmatic passenger put on a mask, despite his presenting a government exemption card, during a flight last month. The passenger, identified as Nick, shared a video with the BBC in which he repeatedly tells the pilot […]

British Airways, easyJet, and Ryanair have joined forces are suing the UK government over its compulsory quarantine for new arrivals. The rule came into force on Monday and requires anyone arriving in the UK by plane to spend 14 days in quarantine. The trio told Business Insider they are seeking […]

EasyJet shares surged as much as 7.5% on Thursday as the company announced 4,500 job cuts due to COVID-19. The budget airline plans to restart flying on 15 June but only expects demand to recover from the pandemic by 2023. EasyJet plans to fly only around 30% of planned capacity […]

EasyJet has been hit with a cyberattack that compromised the personal information of roughly 9 million customers, the company said Tuesday. Hackers stole email addresses and travel data of all 9 million customers, as well as the credit card details of 2,208 customers, according to the company. EasyJet said it […]

Airlines have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, in many cases grounding their entire fleets, furloughing thousands of staff, and issuing dire warnings about their future. Some budget airlines in Europe have already collapsed. Even after the pandemic ends, changes in the market could drive up the famously low […]

A 63-year-old man died after falling sick on an EasyJet flight from Alicante, Spain, to Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. The man was given medical assistance on board and was treated by paramedics after landing, the airline said, but he died. Local police in Newcastle said the man died shortly after […]

Airlines are carrying tons of extra fuel on flights, a practice that lets them avoid paying for fuel in countries where it’s more expensive – at the cost of the environment. The practice was revealed by the BBC’s “Panorama” show, which received leaked documents showing the practice at British Airways. […]

London’s Gatwick airport is running a two-month trial of ways to speed up plane boarding, including boarding passengers based on their individual seat number. The trial has a sophisticated order that favours filling the back of the plane first, and prioritising window seats over middle and aisle seats. The idea […]

An off-duty pilot heading on vacation with his family on Monday ended up flying the plane himself after a missing pilot delayed the departure by two hours. Michael Bradley flew the EasyJet flight from Manchester, UK, to Alicante, Spain, after he brought his pilot ID to the airport when he […]

A photo appearing to show an EasyJet passenger flying in a seat with no back went viral and caused outrage on Tuesday. The airline, however, called the image misleading, saying the seats were out of order and nobody was assigned to them. The photo, which showed a woman in one […]

Shares in easyJet, Ryanair, British Airways-owner IAG and other airline stocks rose on Thursday as investors bet on a surge in summer-vacation bookings now that Brexit is delayed. EasyJet warned last week that Europeans were holding off on buying plane tickets to and from the UK due to the “many […]

A flamingo calmly led an EasyJet plane into its bay at the Palma de Mallorca Airport. The bird was alone, and seemed in no hurry to fly away, despite the impatient beeps from the plane’s horn. Air traffic controllers filmed the commotion, and called the flamingo “very elegant.” Flamingos have […]

Through recent mergers, airlines such as American, Delta, and United have grown to become colossal mega-carriers. Recently, the aviation-data firm OAG provided us with data sets that ranked the 20 largest airlines based on the number of seats each carrier made available to passengers during 2018. As expected, US carriers […]

easyJet recently released a feature on its iOS app called Look&Book that allows users to find and book flights to destinations around the world directly from their Instagram feeds. lNSIDER took the feature for a run to see how well it works. When I tested Instagram screenshots of destinations like […]

An EasyJet Airline passenger claims she was told to stop breastfeeding during the flight’s takeoff. But this contradicts the breastfeeding policy on EasyJet’s website. EasyJet Airlines has apologised. An EasyJet Airline passenger has criticised EasyJet airlines after she was told to stop breastfeeding during a flight. UK mother Kelly Edgson-Payne, […]

Whether you’re fascinated by flight attendants or frequent fliers racking up air miles, there’s a certain intrigue – and element of glamour – to life in the sky. And while you may assume a job like an airline pilot might involve a lifetime of training, for Kate McWilliams, who became […]