Non-exec appointment

easyJet PLC
06 April 2004

Tuesday, 06 April 2004

easyJet appoints BSkyB's Dawn Airey as a non-executive director

easyJet plc today announces the appointment of Dawn Airey as an independent
non-executive director to the easyJet plc Board. Dawn is currently Managing
Director of Sky Networks at British Sky Broadcasting.

In a national television broadcasting spanning 19 years, Dawn has held a number
of senior positions including Chief Executive of Channel 5 (from 2000 - 2002)
and in January 2003 took up her current position.

The Royal Television Society awarded Dawn a fellowship in June 1998. From
1999-2002, she was a member of the government's Film Council, and in 1999, she
became a governor of the Banff Television Festival, which takes place annually
in Canada. She is also an Honorary Committee Member of the Monte Carlo
Television Festival. In 2001, she became a Vice President of the Royal
Television Society and in 2002, she became the Executive Chair of the Media
Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, a post she will hold for
three years. That same year, she became a member of the Board of the
International Emmy Awards and co-hosted the ceremony in November 2003, in New
York.

Dawn was born in Lancashire in 1960 and was educated at Kelly College, Girton
College, Cambridge and Harvard Business School.

Dawn holds no other non-executive Board positions and no further details as
required under chapter 16.4 of the FSA Listing Rules remain to be disclosed.

Sir Colin Chandler, Chairman easyJet plc, said:

'We had a number of very good candidates for this appointment and Dawn had
plenty of other opportunities to consider. I am delighted that she is joining
the board of easyJet plc'

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For further details, contact:

easyJet                           Toby Nicol               ([phone]
BSkyB                             Julian Eccles            ([phone]


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