With a loss equivalent to 1,34 billion euros, the airline is getting out of the 2020/21 financial year better than expected.

The British low-cost airline Easyjet expects a strong recovery in the current financial year despite the ongoing uncertainty in the corona pandemic. Advance bookings for the second half of the year (April to September 2022) would be above the pre-crisis level of 2019. “We have seen an encouraging start to the current year,” said Easyjet boss Johan Lundgren on Tuesday. The capacity offered could almost reach the pre-crisis level in the summer. However, it is not yet clear how the new virus variant Omikron, discovered in South Africa, will affect. Easyjet closed the 2020/21 financial year, which ended in September, with an operating loss of the equivalent of 1,34 billion euros - and thus better than analysts expected.