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Luton based low fares airline roars into Lyon

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Wednesday, 09 April 2008

Lyon Airport has become Luton based low fares airline, easyJet’s  20th base. The new hub in France’s second largest city is part of a €600m investment over a four-year-period that will strengthen easyJet’s position as the largest low-fares airline in France. The investment will enable easyJet to increase its fleet in France from six based aircraft to 20 and to double the number of passengers from 6 million in 2007 to 12 million in 2011. Initially two brand-new Airbus A319 aircraft will be based at Lyon Saint-Exupéry Airport, an investment of €80 million that will create around 80 jobs for pilots and cabin crews. In addition to five existing routes at Lyon Saint-Exupéry, easyJet has launched five new European and North-African routes, to Venice, Marrakech, Casablanca, Lisbon and Porto, and three French domestic services to Bordeaux, Toulouse and Biarritz. By launching its third base in France in Lyon, the country’s second most important economic centre, easyJet becomes the first low-fares airline to offer French domestic flights outside of Paris.  easyJet already operates 50 routes from 14 airports across the country and in the first half of this year a further 23 routes will be launched.  easyJet is now France’s second largest airline behind Air France with a 6 per cent market share. Set as favorite Bookmark Email This Hits: 207 Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Write comment This content has been locked. You can no longer post any comment.

 

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