Easyjet

Charlie Thomas

Stunts, Setbacks And Shareholder Activism - How EasyJet Flew Into The FTSE100

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 07.03.2013 | UK

EasyJet has joined the upper echelons of share trading after it soared into the FTSE100 index on Wednesday afternoon. The FTSE Group decides who ge...

Charlie Thomas

EasyJet Off To A Flying Start For 2013

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 24.01.2013 | UK

EasyJet marked the start of the new year with a new milestone - 10 million business travellers have used the budget airline in the past year. The l...

EasyJet Passengers 'Stage Whip-Round To Compensate Travellers Forced To Leave Overweight Flight'

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 18.01.2013 | UK

An easyJet passenger claims he and his fellow travellers organised a whip-round to pay compensation for four people forced off an overweight flight. ...

Charlie Thomas

EasyJet Sleighs The Competition

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 13.12.2012 | UK

EasyJet's cabin crew are getting in a festive mood by donning Santa Claus outfits to launch a new charity donation drive for Unicef. From Friday 14...

Emirates Confirms Partnership Talks With Sir Stelios's Fastjet

Charlie Thomas | Posted 05.12.2012 | UK

Emirates, the world's largest airline, has confirmed it is in talks with Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou's low-cost African airline Fastjet for a possible pa...

A Goldfish, EasyJet and a Bubbled Loofah in Antalya

David J Constable | Posted 22.01.2013 | UK Lifestyle
David J Constable

The Old Town is where you'll discover the beauty of Antalya. That's nothing against Hillside but you don't travel all this way to confine yourself to a bedroom, unless you're Honeymooning.

African Airline FastJet Expands With New Airbuses And Execs

Charlie Thomas | Posted 19.10.2012 | UK

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou's FastJet - the low-cost African Airline - has signed operating lease agreements with Volito Aviation which will see it take...

EasyJet To Introduce Allocated Seating

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 05.09.2012 | UK

Low-fare airline easyJet is to introduce paid-for allocated seating for all flights. Passengers will have the option to choose from three brands of...

New Venture Not So Easy For Stelios After Delay

Posted 03.09.2012 | UK

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou's latest aviation investment FastJet has announced it will add its first 156 seater Airbus 319 to its growing fleet in Novemb...

Born This Way: Business Brains Who Share A Famous Birthday

Posted 29.08.2012 | UK

Can you guess what links EasyGroup's chairman Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Media giant WPP's chief executive Martin Sorrell and Scottish physicist Charle...

Premium Travel in... Belfast, Ireland

Raj Gill | Posted 19.10.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Raj Gill

For our first ever trip to Ireland we opted to go to Belfast. A double treat as it was also the weekend that MTV Titanic Sounds Concert was taking place, and also the launch of the brand new sparkly Titantic Museum.

Charlie Thomas

Sir Stelios' Fails In Attempt To Oust Easyjet Chief

HuffingtonPost.com | Charlie Thomas | Posted 13.08.2012 | UK

EasyJet founder and major shareholder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou has failed to secure enough votes to oust the airline's chairman, Sir Michael Rake. ...

Holiday Hell? 1500 Passengers Diverted After Fog Shrouds Gatwick Airport

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 30.05.2012 | UK

Fog shrouding Gatwick Airport caused disruption for around 1,500 airline passengers overnight after they were diverted away from Gatwick Airport due t...

The Perfect Seat: Poll Reveals The Best Spot On An Aeroplane

Huffington Post UK | Sara C Nelson | Posted 25.06.2012 | UK

A survey of 1,000 people has revealed the most sought after seat on an aircraft. Aside from the obvious extra legroom we all desire, the Skyscanne...

Sun, Sea and Suspicious Taxes: 8% Increase in Air Passenger Duty

Settit Beyene | Posted 12.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Settit Beyene

Embarking on a gap year in 2012/2013 means I and countless other itchy-footed Brits will have to deal with increased APD on flights, opaque booking costs and 'administration' fees (EasyJet, Ryanair, I'm looking at you). Despite what Madonna said in the '80s, this year, holidays will not be a time to celebrate.

EasyJet 'To Allocate Seats'

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 27.03.2012 | UK

EasyJet passengers could get allocated seats in a new initiative being trialled by the budget airline. Currently many passengers on budget airlines...

EasyJet Founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou Could Split Company's Board

PA | Posted 30.01.2012 | UK

A row between easyJet and its founder is poised to come to a head next month amid reports that directors could quit the board if they lose a pay vote....

Blind Woman 'Refused Travel On EasyJet Because Of Her Guide Dog'

The Huffington Post UK | Olivia Williams | Posted 13.12.2011 | UK

A blind woman had to miss her flight home to Northern Ireland because easyJet, the budget airline, would not let her on a domestic flight with her gui...

EasyJet-Funded Ash Detection Device Arrives Just In Time For Giant Eruption

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 08.12.2011 | UK Tech

Tonnes of thick ash that spewed into the atmosphere after Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted in 2010 cost the airline industry an estimated £...

UK Soldiers Fly To Military Bases - Via EasyJet

Huffington Post UK | Peter Guest | Posted 24.12.2011 | UK

Ministry of Defence personnel will be given discounted fares on the low cost airline EasyJet, as the department tries to trim spending on logistics, t...

EasyJet Founder Stelios Eyes Atlantic Route For New Airline

PA | Posted 02.12.2011 | UK

Plans by the founder of easyJet to launch a new airline will reportedly see it go head-to-head with British Airways and Virgin Atlantic on routes to N...

EasyJet Founder To Set Up Rival Airline Named 'Fastjet'

Huffington Post UK | Michael Rundle | Posted 26.11.2011 | UK

The founder of budget airline easyJet, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, is to let up a new airline called 'Fastjet', reports suggest. Sir Stelios, who is ...

Travel is the new Sex

Katherine Doggrell | Posted 01.11.2011 | UK Lifestyle
Katherine Doggrell

For my generation, travel is what sex was to the teenagers of the 60s. We think we invented it. We ignore the evidence that people have been at it for centuries and in an array of inventive positions using balloons and elephants.

Olivia Williams

Ladies And Gentleman, Welcome To London...Southend

HuffingtonPost.com | Olivia Williams | Posted 04.09.2011 | UK Politics

Given the Conservatives' blanket opposition to expansion at Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted, and their conscientiously-crafted green image, you'd be fo...