easyJet's founder and largest shareholder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, has dropped his plans to remove a board member at an extraordinary meeting, while upping his campaign against the airline's Airbus spending plans... more
One day, perhaps soon than we think, owning billions of pounds' worth of shares in Royal Bank of Scotland may not seem like the questionable investment it does at the moment... more
EasyJet shares take to the skies as the low-cost airline says this year's profits could be as much £50 million better than the City has been expecting... more
Sky-high fuel bills will force cash-strapped airlines to drop routes - and easyJet is ready to swoop in and pick them up, chief executive Carolyn McCall has said... more
Easyjet's founder and biggest shareholder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou indicates his ceasefire with the budget airline's board is over as he pledges to vote against executive pay at its AGM... more
The new chief of easyJet wins a ringing endorsement from the low-cost airline's founder as she announced it will start paying dividends and drive for more business passengers... more
Desmond Tutu, one of the world’s greatest champions of the Dispossessed, gave a powerful blessing to the Standard’s campaign to help the poorest in London... more
EasyJet admits it has had to hire extra crew and aircraft to help it cope with summer demand and costly delays caused by air traffic control strikes across Europe... more
Tories win backing of some of the leaders of Britain's biggest companies for their plan to reverse part of the Government's national insurance increase... more
Andy Harrison, long-standing chief executive of easyJet, announced his departure from the budget airline after two bruising years of on-off battling with its founder and largest shareholder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou... more
Easyjet tycoon Stelios Haji-Ioannou raised £7.5 million by parking two million of his shares in the budget airline, around 1% of the company, with an unnamed City bank... more
London's hedge fund community may have had a torrid time last year but at least its favoured charity, Arki Busson's ARK (or absolute return for kids), has shown the way in moneymaking. In the year to August 2008, its income rose from £32.7 million to £40.2 million. Furthermore, hedge fund turmoil is not expected to affect the levels of pledges. ARK acknowledges that "the level of outstanding donor pledges is considered to be one of the charity's key risks" but that all funding pledges "due for payment have been received to date." So hats off to the generous hedgies and let's hope that spirit continues.... more
War has broken out yet again in the boardroom of easyJet as founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou criticised chief executive Andy Harrison just hours after Harrison had insisted there is no crisis at the budget airline... more
Just weeks after losing a boardroom battle with its founder and waving goodbye to its chairman, easyJet disclosed that another top executive is quitting... more
Aviation: Easyjet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou is claiming victory in his row with the airline's management after the board said today it was prepared to pare back its expansion plans... more
Aviation: The ceasefire in the easyJet boardroom row between founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou and his fellow directors ended today as the airline’s biggest shareholder once more warned chief executive Andy Harrison not to continue expanding during the recession... more
Budget airline easyJet has had one of its worst months ever - right in the middle of a storm blown up by its founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou over cutbacks at the carrier.... more
It seems an age ago that Tony Blair promised us joined-up government, and while it was obviously a rash thing to promise it is nevertheless disappointing to see that every year seems to take us further away from, not nearer, the goal. ... more
Aviation: Open warfare broke out at easyJet as board director, founder and 41% shareholder Stelios Haji-Ioannou refused to sign off the firm's accounts... more
Two of Britain's most colourful entrepreneurs, Sir Richard Branson and Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, are attempting to put a consortium of Gatwick airlines together to buy London's second major airport... more
This hotel cost millions to build, is only eight minutes' walk from Oxford Circus and has all the facilities a modern tourist expects - yet a bed there starts at less than £20 a night... more
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