GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Low-cost British carrier EasyJet is scheduling flights between London and Moscow for mid-March and London-Manchester for the end of March, but the airline is still waiting for Russian authorities to give it a license, reports the Moscow Times. Media in Russia have carried reports that the airline is running into opposition to [...]
Up, up and up we went: Geneva, airlines show higher 2012 figures
January 10, 2013 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss, Easyjet and Geneva airport all showed traffic up in 2012, figures published Thursday 10 January show. Swiss in 2012 carried 16.8 million passengers, a 2.5 percent increase and a record number for the airline, owned by Lufthansa, the parent company said in a statement. The Swiss seat load factor, at 82.4 [...]
Easing into reserved seats, Easyjet to shift policy
September 5, 2012 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Easyjet will start providing reserved seats in November, following a successful test period. The famously low-cost, no frills and no reserved seats company will provide seats together for travellers who reserve their flights together.
Swiss fares to go up CHF10-100 due to market changes, Easyjet to add seating
March 27, 2012 by
GENEVA / ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Airline Swiss announced Tuesday 27 March that it will be increasing long haul flight fares 2 April, by CHF10-30 in economy class and CHF50-100 in business, for flights from Switzerland. Changes in the market account for the price hikes, says the company, which notes that first class fares and special [...]
Easyjet to trial assigned seats in Spring 2012
December 5, 2011 by
Customer approval up as on-time arrivals rise by 13% in year GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Easyjet ended its year 30 September with a good year in Switzerland and overall customer approval up strongly, in large part because of a 13 percent increase in on-time arrivals. The company also announced when it issued its financial report covering [...]
Easyjet adds 3 new summer destinations from Geneva
November 24, 2011 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Easyjet is adding three new cities in southern Europe to its 2012 summer flight schedule: Catania, Sicily in Italy, Athens, Greece and Venice, Italy. The first will be at least twice a week and the other two three times a week, starting 18 April 2012.
easyJet’s loss deepens despite strong passenger growth
May 10, 2011 by
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The number of passengers travelling on easyJet grew by 11.6 percent in the past six months, but the airline’s growing popularity was not enough to stem losses due to fuel price increases. The company 10 May published half-year results. Load factor was a healthy 84.6 and 59 percent of the 23.9 [...]
Spring barely in the door, but easyJet starts its winter sales
April 5, 2011 by
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Winter is just around the corner, if easyJet is to be believed, or at least cheap Christmas-time airfares. The low-cost carrier, Geneva’s largest airline by passenger carried, has just sent out word that it’s winter season tickets are now on sale. The period covers Christmas and the winter ski season, with [...]
Geneva residents courted by airlines again
March 25, 2011 by
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva appeared for a few short years to be of only marginal interest to airlines, after the demise of Swiss in 2002. That has changed and travellers to and from Geneva are now being wooed by airlines, who are offering more destinations. The latest wrinkle in this saga is something of [...]
