easyJet boss predicts Liverpool Airport growth
19.01.10
After announcing that it will launch two new routes from Liverpool Airport this summer just over a week ago, easyJet chief executive Andy Harrison has said that he sees no saturation point for growth in budget air travel, or in capacity, at the airport, the Daily Post reports.
The budget airline is the biggest by passenger numbers at Liverpool Airport, carrying 2.5m passengers a year, and later this year it will celebrate its 25 millionth passenger through the airport since its arrival in 1997. It already has nine aircraft at its Liverpool base and in June will add a 10th to service the new routes.
Mr Harrison, the son of a Bootle docker’s family, pledged more new routes will follow. He told the newspaper: ‘There’s no reason to think the growth will stop. Over the past three months we have flown 10% more people. We have found it easier to win market share in a recession than in the good times. We are doing this in the teeth of a recession. In a more normal environment we expect to still move forward. There is no saturation point for us.’
‘easyJet is going to carry on growing in Liverpool. We have a much longer term philosophy [than rival Ryanair]. We don’t just move the planes around like butterflies. We have a number of ideas for Liverpool and there will be some new routes coming out in the next couple of months.’
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