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London now puts Paris night life in the shade

05.02.10
More than 15,000 Parisians have signed a petition calling on our mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, to prevent the place from becoming "the European capital of boredom"... more

Morocco in small steps

03.02.10
Andrew Neather found travelling in the north African country with his children to be an easier, more fulfilling experience than expected... more

EasyJet revenues take off and fly by 10%

21.01.10
Budget airline easyJet’s shares jump by more than three per cent after revenues increase to £607.5 million... more

Travel turmoil as icy conditions bring misery to commuters

07.01.10
Widespread ice causes more havoc for road, railway and airline travellers as the big freeze continues to cause huge disruptions... more

EasyJet chief stands down after dogfight with Stelios

09.12.09
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 passenger growth slows after ‘sneaky’ fare rises

17.11.09
Growth and profits at easyJet are tumbling as passengers jib at the budget airline sneaking up fares and hitting them with baggage surcharges... more

Half-term holidaymakers dash for the sun

22.10.09
As winter weather approaches, the recession will not stop thousands of people jetting off in search on sunshine this half-term... more

EasyJet finds going tough in summer

06.07.09
The recession in the air is continuing into the summer holiday season. Budget airline easyJet, which not long ago was expanding at more than 10% a year, today said it carried 4.1 million passengers last month, an increase of less than 1% over June 2008 ... more

EasyJet fighting Gatwick's 'rip-off' fees

26.06.09
Travellers using Gatwick are being ripped off, the biggest airline at London's second airport has warned... more

BA launches 'value calculator'

23.06.09
British Airways has thrown down a challenge to the no-frills carriers by launching a "value calculator" on its website... more

British Airways throws down gauntlet to budget airlines

23.06.09
British Airways threw down a challenge to the no-frills carriers by launching a "value calculator" on its website... more

Another boss quits battered EasyJet

01.05.09
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

This is your real boss speaking: We've too few passengers, too many planes

08.04.09
Interview: Sir Stelios doesn’t make it easy to run easyJet. So it’s another knight out and one more stepping in at the airline where he still calls the shots... more

City furore as BT chairman adds hot seat at easyJet

06.04.09
EasyJet, no stranger to controversy in recent months, stretched corporate governance rules by naming BT's Sir Michael Rake as its new chairman... more

BAA 'may only get £1.3bn for Gatwick'

23.03.09
Gatwick Airport could be worth as little as £1.33 billion, rather than the £2 billion-plus its owner BAA hoped to receive from auctioning it off ... more

British Airways feels pinch as slump grounds the high-flyers

05.03.09
The collapse in consumer and business confidence is dragging down Britain's leading airlines into their worst-ever performances and costing more jobs in the aviation industry... more

EasyJet is boosted by ‘a flight to value’

22.01.09
Aviation: The credit crunch may have killed the impromptu holiday and impulse air flight, but budget airline easyJet today said it is more than making up for that by attracting business passengers who are trading down... more

Now Stelios stirs it over easyJet growth

22.01.09
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

Passenger slowdown at easyJet

04.12.08
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

Join up to stave off the recession

03.12.08
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

Passenger duty will hit the low-cost airlines hard

25.11.08
Aviation: The hike in the Government's air-passenger tax will drag down profits at Britain's top airlines... more

Stelios turns up the heat as easyJet profits dive

18.11.08
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

Pilot had no licence for easyJet

31.07.08
Two hundred passengers bound for the sun in Gran Canaria were told their flight was cancelled because the pilot's licence had not been renewed... more

Hard times for easyJet as oil price hits profits

24.07.08
The oil price crisis is worse than the City feared for easyJet as Britain's largest airline today admitted its profits have collapsed by around 40%... more

EasyJet passengers are undaunted by downturn

07.07.08
People are still flying in their millions and are prepared to pay extra to do so, airline is claiming ... more

EasyJet is £57m in the red as fuel bills soar

07.05.08
Winter losses at the budget carrier more than tripled as economics of the airline industry are ripped up ... more

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