New Base Announcement

easyJet PLC
13 February 2004


Embargoed until 1030 (UK time) Friday, 13th February 2003

                      EASYJET CONSOLIDATES GERMAN PRESENCE

easyJet today, Europe's leading low-cost airline, announced today that it is
establishing Dortmund International Airport as its next European base. As part
of the airline's expansion plans for Germany the airline will introduce eight
routes from Dortmund utilising three aircraft. Flights will commence at the end
of May 2004.

easyJet has confirmed six of the routes - twice-daily services to Paris (CDG)
and London (airport to be confirmed), and daily services to Nice, Palma
(Majorca), Alicante, and Rome (Ciampino). The remaining two routes will be
announced shortly.

Flights will commence at the end of May 2004 and will be available for sale
today on www.easyJet.com.

Dortmund is the gateway to the vast and wealthy Rhine/Ruhr industrial catchment
- representing a market with huge inbound and outbound potential: two million
people visited the city of Essen alone last year. In total, some 11 million
people live within 60 minute's drive-time of the airport - an area that also
includes the major cities of Essen and Dusseldorf and is roughly the same
population as London. GDP per head at €25,000 is significantly ahead of the
European average and more than one-fifth of all Germany's GDP comes from the
area.

Two new routes, from Berlin Schonefeld to Basel and Budapest were also announced
today. The twice daily service to Basel will start on 20 May and the daily
service to Budapest commences on 17 June.

These latest routes follow the 7 confirmed yesterday and extend easyJet's
presence in Central and Northern Europe.

Ray Webster, easyJet Chief Executive said:

'It was only a couple of months ago that we announced our intention to
significantly enter the German market with a substantial base at Berlin. Today's
announcement further strengthens our position in Germany - particularly in the
heavily populated and wealthy area of the Rhine/Ruhr valley.

'This is yet another step in the planned growth of easyJet. The fact that we can
start eight new routes using three aircraft by opening up a single new airport
underlines the value of a network rather than hub approach and why we put so
much emphasis on network density.'

ENDS





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