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Lundgren: 'We want to get easyJet Holidays right'

Technology
Gary Noakes
6 September 2019

EasyJet has reaffirmed its intention to launch its new tour operation by the end of 2019, promising to use its lower cost base to shake up the market following a succession of operator failures.

EasyJet's Johan Lundgren says the UK market is now outperforming other European countries

Speaking to TTG at the World Aviation Festival in London on Thursday (5 September), chief executive Johan Lundgren said the new-look easyJet Holidays would be unveiled “late in the calendar year”, but declined to be more specific on the date.

"It’s very clear there is a significant opportunity for us, but we want to get it right," he said. "We are in the process of signing a number of hotels and progress is good.”


Lundgren earlier told delegates easyJet Holidays would use new technologies to make sure it offered “a different proposition” to competitors.


The airline has had a tour operation since 2015, but has until now not contracted its own hotels.