It seems that the well-known budget airline easyJet has made its concerns over the rising passenger tax fully known. In fact, the airline says that this rising passenger tax is going to do nothing more than to hurt the airline industry. However, easyJet said that there are ways that this can be fixed. For example, [...]

Just recently, well-known budget carrier easyJet announced that its losses for the last 6 months have nearly doubled. The company pointed out that this was due to the increase in fuel prices, as well as the tough economy. The report from the company went on to show that pretax losses grew by 93.7 percent to [...]

It now seems that well-known budget airline easyJet is asking the European Union to fund a new volcanic ash detection system for planes. Apparently this new technology, which will be developed by the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, is going to be designed to do what radars simply cannot do.
This new system called AVOID, which [...]

It now seems that easyJet may be looking into launching a new low-cost tour operation outside of the UK. This is the company’s bid to save millions in VAT. EasyJet Holidays, a joint venture between easyJet and Lowcosttravelgroup, is expected to be registered in Switzerland in a bid to get away from VAT under the [...]

Well it now appears that the strength of the low cost airline model has been proven yet again. This time it was proven over the summer as Ryanair and easyJet posted high traffic numbers. Apparently these well known budget airlines collectively sold some 12.88 million seats in August. This is a rise of 10.5 percent [...]

Apparently easyJet’s third quarter revenue to the end of June rose more than 5 percent to £759.2 million. This great news came despite the volcanic ash cloud that cost the airline some £65 million. The well known budget airline also said that it expects to make a full year profit of about £100 to £150 [...]