EasyJet says they will deliver a 'great and reliable' operation for passengers travelling this summer as they hope to carry nearly as many customers at the end of this financial year as they did before the pandemic.
The business said that it will put nearly as many seats on sale in the last three months of this financial year as it did in 2019. Capacity on sale will be 97%, it said.
Over the past 10 weeks, customers of the airline have booked 6% more tickets than they did in the same period two years ago.
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Chief executive Johan Lundgren said: "We have transformed the airline during the pandemic which has enabled us to emerge with renewed strength, underpinned by a product, network and service that customers really value.
This has included moving planes to different routes in better-performing markets. Mr Lundgren added: "Since Easter we have been flying up to a quarter of a million customers and 1,600 flights every day and in the second half leisure and domestic capacity will be above 2019 levels.
"It has been well documented that the industry is experiencing some operational issues so, as you would expect, we have been absolutely focused on taking action to ensure we have strengthened our operational resilience for this summer so we can deliver a great, reliable operation to our customers."
The budget flight provider also revealed on Thursday that it had reduced losses over the six months to the end of March. It said that pre-tax loss hit £557 million over the half-year period, down from £645 million a year earlier.
The business has managed to weather the massive spikes in price for jet fuel in recent months.
In the last year the price of a tonne of fuel has almost doubled, to 762 dollars (£617), easyJet said. Yet the cost of the fuel bill that easyJet had to pay for every seat on the planes that took off was actually nearly a fifth lower. The business said it had bought enough fuel ahead of time to withstand the big hikes.
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