3rd Quarter Results

easyJet PLC 07 August 2006 07 August 2006 EASYJET Q3 STATISTICS ___________________________________________________________ Three months ending June 2006 June 2005 Change Passengers (m)1 8.8 7.6 +15.8% Load factor2 86.0% 84.9% +1.1pp Total revenue3 (£m) 460.2 342.9 +34.2% Total revenue per seat4 (£) 45.07 38.43 +17.3% Average operating aircraft 110 95 +16.3% ASKs (bn) 9.9 8.4 +18.7% RPKs (bn) 8.6 7.1 +20.6% Average sector length (km) 973 941 +3.6% _____________________________________________________________________ Note: easyJet does not publish full quarterly results, but issues a trading statement for the first and third quarters as a supplement to its regular monthly passenger statistics (see separate release for July statistics). Q3 performance At the time of the June traffic statistics, easyJet commented on the strong revenue performance for the quarter ended 30 June 2006 and upgraded its guidance for the full year. We are maintaining our guidance that pre-tax profit growth for the full year will be in the range of 40% to 50%, and we now expect full year capacity growth to be in the region of 13% and expect unit revenue and unit costs to be slightly higher than our previous guidance. Throughout the quarter, unit revenue remained strong across the network, reflecting pro-active yield management and buoyant market conditions. Targeted marketing and promotional activity helped raise awareness, with the number of unique visitors to the website up 60% for the quarter compared to the same period the previous year. At the same time ancillary revenue was up 32% per seat year on year. easyJet continues to expand and improve its customer offering through growing its network and improving schedule quality and routes offered. In the quarter easyJet started flying 19 new routes, among them further expansion from our youngest base at Milan Malpensa where we now operate 12 routes to destinations in Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Greece, the UK and Portugal. 11 routes were also launched connecting UK bases in London, Scotland and Liverpool with various European destinations; and 4 routes began operating between bases in France and Switzerland and destinations in Italy, Spain, and Turkey. The easyJet footprint has expanded further outside the EU, and easyJet now serves 21 countries with the recent additions of Croatia, Turkey, and Morocco. In June, easyJet announced plans for significant expansion from London Gatwick this winter with a new three-times daily service to Glasgow starting in October, and added frequencies on routes serving Madrid, Milan, Cologne, Athens, Berlin and Amsterdam. This has been partly facilitated by the re-deployment of aircraft from under performing routes. easyJet now operates 121 aircraft on 267 routes between 74 airport in 21 countries. 1.Represents the number of earned seats flown. Earned seats include seats that are flown whether or not the passenger turns up because easyJet is a no-refund airline, and once a flight has departed a no-show customer is generally not entitled to change flights or seek a refund. Earned seats also include seats provided for promotional purposes and to staff for business travel. 2. Represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of seats available for passengers. No weighting of the load factor is carried out to recognise the effect of varying flight (or 'stage') lengths. 3. Represents statutory revenue (unaudited) 4. Represents total revenue divided by the number of seats flown available for passengers. END For further details please contact: easyJet plc Julia Collins, Investor Relations +44 (0) 1582 525 258 Andrew Barker, Investor Relations +44 (0) 1582 525 982 Toby Nicol, Corporate Communications +44 (0) 1582 525 339 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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