easyJet boss promises more growth
19.01.10
After announcing that it will launch three new routes from Liverpool Airport this summer, easyJet chief executive Andy Harrison has told the Daily Post that he sees no saturation point for growth in budget air travel, or in capacity, at the airport.
The budget airline is the biggest by passengers at Liverpool Airport, carrying 2.5m a year, and later this year it will celebrate its 25 millionth passenger at the airport since its arrival in 1997. It already has 9 planes at its Liverpool base and in June will add a 10th to service the new routes.
Mr Harrison, the son of a Bootle docker’s family, pledged more new routes will follow. He told the newspaper: ‘There’s no reason to think this growth will stop. Over the past 3 months we have flown 10 percent more people. We have found it easier to win market share in a recession. We are doing this in the teeth of a recession. There is no saturation point for us.’
‘easyJet is going to carry on growing at Liverpool Airport. We have a much longer term philosophy [than budget rival Ryanair]. We don’t move the planes around like butterflies. We have a number of ideas for Liverpool and there will be new routes coming out in the next couple of months.’
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