The airline’s passenger numbers fell 89% in H1 to just 4.1 million; it current expects to operate at around 15% of 2019 capacity in the third-quarter, but said it had flexibility to quickly put more flights on to capitalise on travel opportunities during the lucrative summer months of Q4.
EasyJet is expecting capacity to increase from June onwards as travel restrictions on the continent ease, although it said the constant chopping and changing of travel restrictions in response to incidence of Covid-19 infection would likely result in the airline operating with lower than optimal load factors.
