One airline’s loss is another’s gain
EasyJet has revealed it carried 7.9% more passengers last year than in 2009, and in December, when rival British Airways’ services were hit by severe snow and ice at Heathrow and Gatwick, the low-cost carrier saw its traffic grow by 7.6% compared with December 2009.
The Luton-based airline carried 3,657,186 passengers last month, pushing its load factor up fractionally to 85.8%.
In stark contrast, British Airways saw its passenger numbers fall by 8.3% last month, in which it estimates it lost £50m in revenue due to the grounding of its services during the bad weather.
For the full year, easyJet carried 49.7million passengers and its overall load factor was 87.2%.
By Linsey McNeill
Linsey McNeill
Editor Linsey McNeill has been writing about travel for more than three decades. Bylines include The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Which? plus the South China Morning Post. She also shares insider tips on thetraveljournalist.co.uk
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