02.12.2021 - 05:49 UTC
easyJet (U2, London Luton) has announced that it has firmed up seven A320-200N options and twelve purchase rights with deliveries scheduled between January 2025 and September 2027.
"This agreement secures valuable, supply-constrained delivery slots between January 2025 and September 2027 for aircraft with a cash value of USD2.25 billion on delivery at 2021 list prices. All aircraft purchased by easyJet under the terms of the original 2013 Airbus agreement are subject to a substantial discount from list price," the carrier said in its annual financial report.
Following the new order, easyJet now has 106 A320-200Ns and sixteen A321-200Ns on order from the manufacturer with a further six A320neo options and 53 purchase rights. It underlined that it retains significant flexibility in terms of outstanding deliveries and the potential conversion between A320neo and A321neo. As of November 30, 2021, the airline expects eight deliveries through the end of September 2022, another seven until the end of September 2023, and 18 in the following 12 months, although this is subject to change depending on market...
16.11.2021 - 20:52 UTC
easyJet Switzerland (DS, Geneva) took delivery of its first A320-200N on November 9, 2021, and began its commercial operations on November 12.
HB-AYE (msn 10114) was delivered to the Swiss unit of easyJet (U2, London Luton) directly from the manufacturer site at Toulouse Blagnac. The aircraft is based out of Geneva; its first commercial operation was to Santiago de Compostela.
easyJet Switzerland announced earlier this year that it would add five A320-200Ns by the end of 2021. It appears to have slightly revised the timeline as it has now disclosed that all five will join its fleet "by the first quarter of 2022", The airline said the A320-200Ns would be based out of Geneva and Basel/Mulhouse/Freiburg, CH but did not specify how many aircraft would operate out of each of the two bases.
The Swiss carrier also operates five A319-100s and twenty-two A320-200s. It said the A320-200Ns would replace older aircraft rather than provide growth.
The A320neo family fleet operated by easyJet Group...
08.11.2021 - 09:52 UTC
easyJet Europe (EC, Vienna) is set to re-enter the German domestic market on December 1, 2021, when it will launch 12x weekly services between Cologne/Bonn and Berlin Brandenburg Int'l, ch-aviation schedule analysis has revealed.
The low-cost carrier will operate the route 12x weekly using a mix of A319-100s and A320-200s.
easyJet entered Germany on a large scale in the wake of the bankruptcy of Air Berlin, when it acquired the defunct carrier's slots at Berlin Tegel, together with twenty-five A320 Family aircraft leases for approximately EUR40 million (USD46.5 million at that time). It launched domestic and international operations out of Berlin Tegel in January 2018 while also maintaining its legacy international base at Berlin Schönefeld. However, the LCC announced that it would discontinue all of its domestic German flights in mid-2020, amidst the COVID-induced drop in demand. It also said at that time that it would halve the number of aircraft based out of Berlin.
As such, the restarted route to Cologne will be easyJet's...
14.10.2021 - 16:20 UTC
Wizz Air Holdings is not averse to potential mergers and acquisitions of other airlines in the future, as long as it maintains strict cost discipline in the process, Chief Executive József Váradi told Bloomberg.
"Given our low-cost business model, we are not a natural consolidator, and it doesn't come to us intuitively, but that's not to say that we won't be looking at opportunities as they arise," he said.
Váradi added that the low-cost carrier had considered 20 potential mergers or acquisitions over the last ten years. He said that despite having no ambitions of building IAG International Airlines Group-like holdings, Wizz Air was "not blind" to market trends, including consolidation.
Although the LCC has not publicly confirmed it, it was widely understood to be behind the recent takeover proposal for easyJet. The British rival rejected the highly conditional and unsolicited offer, deeming it "fundamentally undervalued".
According to the ch-aviation capacities module, Wizz Air Holdings (comprising Wizz Air, Wizz Air UK, and Wizz Air Abu Dhabi) is the...
