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Happy Birthday EasyJet

12/11/2015

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Easyjet is 20 years old this year; I know this as they sent me an email to celebrate the fact. The launch of this new upstart airline went un noticed by me at the time, as I was living in Hong Kong then but when I returned to the UK in 1998 it seemed a low price air war had broken out over Europe, with Ryanair and others all competing for this new market. Even ‘regular’ airlines like British Airways had a ‘cheap’ offshoot called ‘Go’. Many like ‘Go’, went down the tubes, but Ryanair and Easyjet have powered on and built extensive networks and so used have Europeans become too cheap flights, that the prosperity of many cities and regions is based entirely on the tourists that fly in, particularly at weekends.

I was a slow adopter of this new world of European travel, still preferring to walk the hills of Britain on my weekends. My Easyjet birthday email tells me that my first easyjet flight wasn’t until March 2001, to Barcelona, a city I’ve returned to many times since. Lonely Planet always liked to think that they were ‘budget travellers’ still, so while working there I used Easyjet and it’s rivals very often. While no longer a business traveller I still travel a lot and Easyjet is usually my first choice. It flies from Luton, which I live close to and unlike Ryanair has always treated its customers with respect. No incomprehensible websites filled with extra payment traps.
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According to Easyjet I have now flown 28544 km with them, half way around the world, but all in nice short hops. Long may it continue, a company that really has changed the lives of millions, for the better.
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