The British low-cost airline is gearing up for a relaxation of travel restrictions in summer after a deep red winter half-year. 

Company boss Johan Lundgren expects to be able to increase the flight offer again from June, as Easyjet announced on Thursday in Luton near London. At the moment, pilots and flight attendants are being brought back from short-time work in order to be able to react to increased demand for flight tickets. 

In the current business quarter until the end of June, however, the majority of the Easyjet machines will remain on the ground: The flight offer will probably only reach 15 percent of the level from the corresponding quarter of the pre-Corona year 2019. For the current financial year up to the end of September, the management still does not trust itself to be able to make a financial forecast. The short-term uncertainties are too great, it was said to justify. A late change in travel restrictions is likely to result in short-term changes in ticket demand and flight availability. This will also have an impact on the capacity utilization of the aircraft.

In the first half of the financial year until the end of March, the low-coster flew even deeper into the red, as expected, due to the ongoing travel restrictions. At 549 million British pounds, the net loss was almost 70 percent higher than a year earlier, when the corona pandemic only brought air traffic to a near standstill in March. This time the airline only carried around four million passengers, just a tenth as many as a year earlier. Sales fell to a similar extent to 240 million pounds.