Great news:)
Easyjet.com
easyJet is to grow by 10% at the South London airport by adding a new three-times daily service to Glasgow International Airport and increasing frequencies on a further six major European routes (Madrid, Milan, Cologne, Athens, Berlin and Amsterdam) as the airline continues to exploit its strong position and unique customer offering.
easyJet now offers its passengers more routes from Gatwick than from any other airport and will be 10% bigger at Gatwick this winter than the same period last year – having already added 3 new routes to Milan Malpensa, Marrakech and Split.
Since early 2002, easyJet has grown to account for 18% of Gatwick’s capacity, while BA’s share has declined from 47% to 38%. In the last 12 months, British Airways has withdrawn from six routes and has reduced capacity on a further six that are operated by easyJet.This summer, easyJet will fly up to half a million passengers from Gatwick every month.
easyJet has succeeded by matching BA’s route network and providing a range of services at a much better price than BA. easyJet now offers:
Europe’s best hand baggage allowance (same volume as BA Club Class with no weight restriction)
Access to airport lounges for those that want to pay for it
Free transfer to an earlier flight if meetings finish early
Overnight check-in at Gatwick for early flights
Internet check-in (and 15 minute arrival time at the departure gate)
Speedy Boarding (£5 per sector) for those that want to board the aircraft firstThe three-times daily service to Glasgow will start on 2 October and will bring the number of flights offered by easyJet between London airports and Glasgow every day to 14, with fares from £20.99 one way (£41.98 return including taxes). Seats will be on sale from today.
Frequency changes for the winter are being made on the following routes:
Milan: increase to five times daily
Madrid: increase to four times a daily
Cologne: increase to three times daily
Amsterdam: increase to five times daily
Berlin: increase to twice daily
Athens: increase to 11 flights per weekAndy Harrison, easyJet Chief Executive, said:
“easyJet has grown dramatically at Gatwick over the last few years by offering its familiar combination of low-fares with care and convenience and has grown Gatwick to be our biggest single airport base.
“Given the range of services we now offer – from speedy boarding to the best hand baggage allowance in the business – it’s not surprising that BA’s passengers are flocking to easyJet in record numbers and today’s announcement will strengthen further our position at Gatwick.”
By: philgatwick05 - 9th June 2006 at 15:53
Exactly 😀
Wait for the Ryanair press release now then…
By: tomfellows - 9th June 2006 at 15:52
Well it wasn’t as if there were loads of passengers on their Irish services anyway!
Plus, Belfast and Edinburgh up until recently were ‘Not available after 30th September’ but obviously they are now. Probably a slot issue, although a pull out from Ireland wouldn’t surprise me, especially since Ryanair have announced an extra flight to Cork from Gatwick from November bringing their frequency of ORK-LGW to 3 times daily.
By: philgatwick05 - 9th June 2006 at 15:48
EDIT – it would appear have dropped the Irish routes as they’re not loaded into the booking engine past 30th Sept when all other routes ex LGW are.
Looks like the increase isn’t as massive as thought now then 🙁
By: philgatwick05 - 9th June 2006 at 15:46
Can’t find news of them dropping the Irish routes – though I’m sure they’d be the ones to go given the competition from FR. Got anything further on this?
By: RIPConcorde - 9th June 2006 at 15:36
I agree that it is good news, but would it not make sense for them to move their ‘home’ base from LTN to LGW, now that LGW is their where there biggest operation happens?
Has the number of services from LTN or other airports decreased, to make way for this increase at LGW?
I’ve read that all the Irish routes from LGW are being dumped in favour of this latest expansion? Due to slot restrictions at LGW something had to go?
By: philgatwick05 - 9th June 2006 at 15:31
Hiya Cloud_9.
No services have been cut from other airports to make way for this – there are new a/c being delivered all the time.
I see your point about the home base being at LGW – but remember that all the crewing staff etc. will be based in Luton, and it would cause huge problems to relocate them. Also, there’s a lot to be said for having a home base in a small airport, for example EZY have purchased an old Britannia hanger for heavy maintenance use. This would have been more expensive at LGW – just to give one example.
By: cloud_9 - 9th June 2006 at 15:27
I agree that it is good news, but would it not make sense for them to move their ‘home’ base from LTN to LGW, now that LGW is their where there biggest operation happens?
Has the number of services from LTN or other airports decreased, to make way for this increase at LGW?
By: Ollie - 9th June 2006 at 14:02
WOW that’s great news
I will be making good use of their new routes
By: philgatwick05 - 9th June 2006 at 13:51
Fab news for Easyjet and LGW. Gatwick is Easyjets main Hub?
Certainly is :D.
Gatwick is their largest operation by quite a considerable margin. Their home base is still Luton though.
By: Manston Airport - 9th June 2006 at 13:14
Fab news for Easyjet and LGW. Gatwick is Easyjets main Hub?
James
By: lukeylad - 8th June 2006 at 18:43
ah my favourete low cost airline i wish id never betrayed them to try the competition i’ll never do that again!! great news for easyjet!!
By: philgatwick05 - 8th June 2006 at 18:36
Good to see EZY getting ever busier at LGW – though still nothing of the rumoured NCL service.
The usual marketing distortion on the figures though. BA’s share of LGW has declined because the LGW pie has grown overall and BA haven’t grown as quickly, that’s all. BA have launched several new routes this year and are finally trying to turn LGW short haul round into profitabillity.
By: PlymouthCity - 8th June 2006 at 18:13
Glasgow is long over due from Gatwick by EZY!!
Good News:D
By: Craigston_Tom - 8th June 2006 at 16:58
Wow they really are expanding. Good news for Gatwick. I’m still waiting to see if they’d ever launch a second route to Aberdeen.
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