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EasyJet Europe Airline GmbH, trading as easyJet, is a
Europe
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an low-cost airline founded in 2017 and based in Vienna
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, Austria
Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
. It operates scheduled flights across Europe and is a subsidiary of EasyJet plc.
History
The airline was established on 18 July 2017 and started operations on 20 July 2017, with the first flight being anAirbus A320
The Airbus A320 family is a series of narrow-body airliners developed and produced by Airbus.
The A320 was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was introduced in April 1988 by Air France.
The first member of the fam ...
(re-registered as OE-IVA, previously G-EZPA) flying from London Luton Airport
London Luton Airport is an international airport located in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, situated east of the town centre, and north of Central London. The airport is owned by London Luton Airport Ltd (LLAL), a company wholly owned by L ...
to Vienna Airport
Vienna International Airport (german: Flughafen Wien-Schwechat; ) is the international airport of Vienna, the capital of Austria, located in Schwechat, southeast of central Vienna and west of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. It is the co ...
. The airline was established following the UK referendum vote to leave the European Union and the airline's decision to obtain an Air Operator's Certificate
An air operator's certificate (AOC) is the approval granted by a civil aviation authority (CAA) to an aircraft operator to allow it to use aircraft for commercial purposes. This requires the operator to have personnel, assets, and system in plac ...
(AOC) in another EU member state in order to continue operating flights across and within European countries after the UK leaves the EU.
Many aircraft currently registered to EasyJet UK will be reregistered to EasyJet Europe, and those staff employed by EasyJet UK but based elsewhere in the European Union will be transferred to EasyJet Europe. EasyJet has announced that it is planning to re-register 110 aircraft to fly under the new AOC of EasyJet Europe by March 2019.
EasyJet is thus a pan-European airline group with three airlines based in the UK, Austria and Switzerland ( EasyJet UK, EasyJet Europe, and EasyJet Switzerland
EasyJet Switzerland SA, styled as easyJet, is a Swiss low-cost airline based in Meyrin, canton of Geneva.
EasyJet Europe operates in conjunction with the other
EasyJet Europe operates in conjunction with the other EasyGroup
EasyGroup Ltd (styled as easyGroup) is a British multinational venture capital conglomerate founded in 1998 and privately owned by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou.
Overview
The group is registered in the Cayman Islands, but operates from its offi ...
airlines.
Fleet
, the EasyJet Europe fleet consists of the following aircraft:References
External links
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