December 02 Traffic Stats

easyJet PLC
08 January 2003

8 January 2003
Passenger statistics for December 2002

Below are the easyJet passenger statistics, including Go Fly, for December 2002.
This information is published on the fifth working day of every month.
Passenger statistics for easyJet (combined with Go)

                     December 2002  December 2001  Year-on-year change  Rolling 12 months ending 
                                                                        31/12/2002

Passengers(1)         1,433,400     1,034,100       +38.6%              17,292,644

Load Factor(2)        77.0%         79.9%                               82.9%

Go Fly, as an independent company, carried 363,710 passengers with a load factor
of 75.4% in December 2001, and easyJet carried 670,390 passengers with a load
factor of 82.8% in the same period.

December 2001 numbers have been presented on a pro-forma combined basis.

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.


Ray Webster, easyJet Chief Executive, said of the month of December

'December 2002 was a particularly busy month for all of us at easyJet. We flew
1.4 million people, announced a number of new routes to go on sale before the
end of the Winter and launched our biggest-ever schedule offering 100 routes for
the Summer.

'Capacity, measured in the number of seats for sale, grew by 44% compared to
December last year, with a particular increase from the London market due to the
establishment of our Gatwick services in early 2002. Load factors reverted to
the levels we saw in December 2000, following a spike last year caused by the
sales and promotions that we launched after September 11th.

'We also made real progress in the integration of easyJet and Go by operating
under a single Air Operators Certificate and selling seats from a single
reservations system utilising the easyJet yield management system. Finally, we
entered into a contract with Airbus for, amongst other things, the supply by
Airbus to easyJet of 120 A319 aircraft with options with price protection on a
further 120 A319 aircraft.'


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