{"id":42092,"date":"2021-07-21T14:43:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/?p=42092"},"modified":"2021-07-21T14:43:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T13:43:47","slug":"easyjet-back-to-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/easyjet-back-to-60\/","title":{"rendered":"easyJet back to 60%","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8230; of pre-pandemic levels<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2018\/05\/easyJet-plane-300x172.png\" alt=\"easyJet plane\" class=\"wp-image-17592 lazyload\" title=\"\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2018\/05\/easyJet-plane-300x172.png\" alt=\"easyJet plane\" class=\"wp-image-17592\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/easyJet-plane-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/easyJet-plane-500x287.png 500w, https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/easyJet-plane.png 766w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BBC and the Guardian both reported yesterday that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/easyjet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">easyJet<\/a>\u00a0boss has called on the UK government to add \u201cmany more\u201d European countries to its \u201cgreen\u201d quarantine-free travel list, as the airline announced that it was ramping up the number of flights it operates to 60% of pre-pandemic levels during the summer holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The airline will operate up to 1,400 flights a day between July and September. On Monday of this week, it ran 1,000 flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">easyJet also revealed that fewer than half of its UK summer flights are currently sold, compared with 69% at this point in 2019, and that two-thirds of its bookings had come from mainland Europe. Normally, its business is split 50-50 between the UK and the rest of Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johan Lundgren, the easyJet chief executive, said the UK was falling behind the rest of Europe, and criticised the UK government\u2019s different approach to opening up international travel compared with opening up the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">A new tab has been added to the top of each page with a link to resources dealing with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/covid-19\/\">COVID-19 in Madeira<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 this covers the latest government regulations on travel to the island, how to get a PCR test, and many other links that will be useful to people wanting to travel to and from Madeira<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>COVID-19 in Madeira:&nbsp;<\/strong>daily updates can be found&nbsp;in&nbsp;an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/covid-19-cases-slowly-edge-upwards\/\">earlier post<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Vaccinations in Madeira:&nbsp;<\/strong>updates can be found&nbsp;in&nbsp;an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/vaccination-update\/\">&nbsp;earlier post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; of pre-pandemic levels The BBC and the Guardian both reported yesterday that\u00a0easyJet\u00a0boss has called on the UK government to add \u201cmany more\u201d European countries to its \u201cgreen\u201d quarantine-free travel list, as the airline announced that it was ramping up the number of flights it operates to 60% of pre-pandemic levels during the summer holiday season. The airline will operate up to 1,400 flights a day between July and September. On Monday of this week, it ran 1,000 flights. easyJet also revealed that fewer than half of its UK summer flights are currently sold, compared with 69% at this point in 2019, and that two-thirds of its bookings had come from mainland Europe. Normally, its business is split 50-50 between the UK and the rest of Europe. Johan Lundgren, the easyJet chief executive, said the UK was falling behind the rest of Europe, and criticised the UK government\u2019s different approach to opening up international travel compared with opening up the economy. A new tab has been added to the top of each page with a link to resources dealing with&nbsp;COVID-19 in Madeira&nbsp;\u2013 this covers the latest government regulations on travel to the island, how to get a PCR test, and many other links that will be useful to people wanting to travel to and from Madeira COVID-19 in Madeira:&nbsp;daily updates can be found&nbsp;in&nbsp;an&nbsp;earlier post Vaccinations in Madeira:&nbsp;updates can be found&nbsp;in&nbsp;an&nbsp;earlier post<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-island-regional-people-headlines","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeiraislanddirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}