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easyJet PLC 20 November 2001 Not for release, distribution or publication in whole or in part in or into the United States, Canada, Japan or Australia. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 20 November 2001 easyJet plc ('easyJet' or 'the Company') RESULTS OF PLACING AND OPEN OFFER On 29 October 2001, the Company announced a Placing and Open Offer of 26,032,258 new Ordinary Shares. Of these shares, 19,532,258 new Ordinary Shares were the subject of the Open Offer being made to Qualifying Shareholders on the basis of 3 new Ordinary Shares for every 40 existing Ordinary Shares and 6,500,000 new Ordinary Shares were placed on a non pre-emptive basis with institutional investors. easy Group Limited ('easyGroup'), a company indirectly owned by Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the chairman of the Company, also agreed to sell 13,000,000 Ordinary Shares in the Placing. On 2 November 2001, the Company announced that the Offer Price was 375p per share. The Open Offer closed at 3:00pm on 20 November 2001 and valid applications had been received at that time for a total of 3,920,397 new Ordinary Shares. This represents 70.8 per cent of the new Ordinary Shares available to Qualifying Shareholders other than easyJet Holdings. In accordance with the arrangements described in the Placing and Open Offer Circular dated 29 October 2001, easyGroup has therefore subscribed for a total of 15,611,861 new Ordinary Shares. As a result of the Placing and Open Offer, easyGroup's shareholding in the Company now comprises 79,016,497 Ordinary Shares, representing 27.6 per cent of the enlarged issued share capital of the Company. When taken together with the number of Ordinary Shares held by companies indirectly owned by Stelios Haji-Ioannou's brother and sister, this totals 167,573,629 Ordinary Shares, representing 58.5 per cent of the enlarged issued share capital. Therefore the number of Ordinary Shares held by persons other than companies indirectly owned by Stelios Haji-Ioannou and his brother and sister following the Placing and Open Offer has now increased to 118,888,740 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 41.5 per cent of the enlarged issued share capital of the Company. Credit Suisse First Boston and UBS Warburg acted as joint lead managers and joint bookrunners of the Placing and Open Offer. It is expected that Admission will become effective and that dealings on the London Stock Exchange in the new Ordinary Shares the subject of the Open Offer will commence tomorrow, 21 November 2001. For further information contact: easyJet plc Chris Walton +44 (0) 1582 443 336 Credit Suisse First Boston Richard Crawley +44 (0) 20 7888 8888 UBS Warburg Nic Hellyer +44 (0) 20 7568 5668 Press Enquiries Toby Nicol +44 (0) 1582 525 339 Note: Terms defined in the offering circular dated 29 October 2001 relating to the Placing and Open Offer shall have the same meaning in this announcement. END

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