In the current quarter, Easyjet will therefore expand its flight schedule and use around 40 percent of its capacity. So far, there was talk of 30 percent.
Easyjet made a pre-tax loss of £ 324.5 million in the quarter to the end of June, the airline said on Tuesday. In the same quarter of the previous year, the profit was still £ 174 million.
Easyjet ceased operations on March 30 due to the corona pandemic and worldwide travel restrictions, and resumed operations on June 15. Around 117,000 passengers flew with Easyjet in the last two weeks of June – for comparison: in April and June 2019 there were 26 million passengers. In July 2020, the number of Easyjet customers was again around two million.
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Easyjet in a comfortable situation
Compared to other airlines, Easyjet only started up the flight offer for the summer with caution. Thanks to the increasing demand, the company can now expand its range somewhat. Other airlines that wanted to do more business now would have to cancel flights. Irish Easyjet rival Ryanair announced it would expand its flight offerings to 60 percent in August and 70 percent in September.
According to Lundgren, few Easyjet customers have canceled their trips to Spain since the quarantine was introduced. "People fly and accept quarantine." However, there are only a few new bookings.
The British government had imposed a quarantine obligation at the end of July, which left holidaymakers, airlines and tour operators cold. Thousands of Britons are affected. The quarantine obligation applies to returnees from mainland Spain as well as to people who come from the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands. The tour operator Tui then canceled flights from the UK to mainland Spain.
Lundgren advocated special rules for individual regions – such as those spoken by the German government. For example, the Federal Foreign Office warns holidaymakers from Germany only about tourist trips to three Spanish regions where the number of infections has recently risen sharply: Catalonia with the tourist metropolis Barcelona and the Costa Brava, and the regions Aragón and Navarra to the west of it.