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easyJet has announced that it will be launching four new routes from London Gatwick Airport, giving travellers an even greater choice of popular destinations in Croatia, Cyprus, Italy and Greece.

easyJet has announced the launch of its new online foreign exchange service, offering travellers’ easy access to the widest range of foreign currencies available from any UK airline, combined with the convenience of next day home delivery.

easyJet has announced that it is opening a new route from East Midlands to Nice, giving the region’s travellers an even greater choice of destinations from their local airport. The three times weekly service (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday) to the South of France, will commence on 2 April 2009. Fares will be at a credit crunch busting £22.99 one way.

easyJet has released its summer 2009 schedule from London Gatwick Airport. Destinations include the ever popular hotspots of Alicante, Malaga and Faro along with many exciting cities such as Edinburgh, Barcelona and Helsinki. Fares will be starting at a credit crunch busting £27.99 including tax.

Following the announcement that Ryanair is to terminate its hotel supplier contract with Expedia, easyJet is offering Ryanair customers the opportunity to book their hotel at easyJetHotels.com. easyJetHotels also offers Ryanair customers an extra 5% off already guaranteed lowest rates at easyJetHotels. To qualify for this discount, Ryanair customers who have booked a flight and want to book a hotel can book online at easyJetHotels using the code 482920 to receive their hotel discount.

Londoners are the most stressed out people in Europe, figures out this month confirm. Long working hours, lousy weather and growing financial worries mean that those living in the UK’s capital city are feeling the strain and are unable to let off steam and unwind.

easyJet has revealed the results of a survey that shows that easyJet is cheaper than alternative carriers on the busiest European routes 79% of the time and that companies save over £100 on at least 35% of journeys.

easyJet has been crowned the Best Low Cost / No Frills Airline at this year’s British Travel Awards. The awards ceremony took place on Thursday 6 November at the Battersea Evolution. easyJet beat off stiff competition to win the coveted trophy.

easyJet has announced a new partnership with Holiday Extras that will enable travellers to save even more when booking their holiday. easyJet customers can book their airport parking via a dedicated booking page, easyjet4parking.com. Powered by Holiday Extras, travellers can now book best price airport parking guaranteed, as well as the best choice of car parks and greatest availability.

Following the collapse of the XL Group, easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has added extra flights from Gatwick to Las Palmas (Gran Canaria), Dalaman (Turkey) and Arrecife (Lanzarote) this October. The additional seats are in response to a lack of available seats between the UK and these key holiday destinations.

As a result of ongoing travel disruption of Eurotunnel services easyJet has added further flights to Paris (Charles de Gaulle) from London Luton this week.

easyJet has unveiled plans to reduce its point of sale (POS) fee on bookings made through Global Distribution Systems (GDS) and other approved third party distribution channels connected to its Application Programming Interface (API). The fee, which has up to now been based on a variable fee of up to £5 (€7.50) per seat (depending on the number of seats booked), will now be set at a fixed fee of £3.30 (€4) per seat.

easyJet has announced another new route from London Gatwick to Istanbul. The new daily route will launch on 12 December 2008, with fares from £35.99 one way (£58.98 return) including tax. This new route to Istanbul brings the total number of routes from Gatwick to 51 this winter and the airline expects over 100,000 passengers to travel on the new service in the first 12 months.

easyJet has announced a new route from London Gatwick to Salzburg in Austria. The new route, which commences on 13 December, will operate three times weekly and offer fares from just £32.99 one way including tax.

easyJet, Europe's leading low-fares airline, today unveiled plans to launch two new routes from Manchester this winter to Sofia (Bulgaria) and Geneva (Switzerland). The new Sofia route which will commence on 11 December and the new Geneva route on 12 December, will be available from just £33.99 one way and £29.99 one way respectively.

England World Cup winner and Lions Rugby star, Will Greenwood MBE, has launched easyJet's in-flight collection campaign for leukaemia charity, The Anthony Nolan Trust. Throughout the summer, easyJet cabin crew will be asking passengers to donate any loose change to support the charity.

easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has launched its winter 2008/9 schedule for flights from London Luton and London Gatwick. Flights from 3 November 2008 to 28 March 2009 are on sale now at easyJet.com, with fares available on domestic routes from £19.99 one way and European destinations from £21.99 one way including all taxes.

easyJet, Europe’s leading low-fares airline, has launched its latest new route from London Gatwick to the Swiss city of Basel this month. The daily service is available from just £28.99 one way including tax.

easyJet has today launched its winter 2008/9 schedule for flights from Bristol, East Midlands, Manchester and Newcastle. Flights from 2 November 2008 to 28 March 2009 are on sale now with fares from £21.99 one way.

easyJet taking out advertisements in the national newspapers as part of its long-running campaign to make air tax greener and to cut out the subsidies. Last year, the Government announced that it will scrap the current structure of Air Passenger Duty (APD) and replace it with a flight tax, i.e. a tax on planes.

easyJet has launched a new service from London Gatwick to the French coastal town of Biarritz. The new four-times weekly service (Sunday, Monday, Wednesday & Friday), will provide easy and low-cost access to some of the most beautiful beaches, breathtaking landscapes and mouth-watering nouvelle cuisine in the Basque Country.

Lufthansa Systems today announced that easyJet, Europe’s fourth largest airline, will begin using Lido Operations Center (Lido OC), to plan all of its flight routings from October 2008.

easyJet today celebrates the arrival of its eleventh based aircraft at Milan Malpensa Airport and announces the airline’s further expansion at Northern Italy’s most important airport.

easyJet has introduced a facility to allow passengers to purchase extra weight allowance for their hold baggage in advance of their flight. The new facility will allow passengers to pay their excess weight charges online, at a reduced rate, which will also save them time at the airport.

CFM and easyJet celebrate a milestone in the airline’s ambition to be recognized as one of the world’s most environmentally-efficient airlines by revealing new engines that will reduce NOx (mono-nitrogen oxides) emissions by 25% and bring considerable progress in terms of CO2 emissions, fuel consumption and maintenance costs.