EasyJet Holidays has reported encouraging demand for its winter 2021/22 season, however more customers are looking for clarification around quarantine rules before booking a summer break.
In a statement, easyJet Holidays said: “Holidays for Winter 2021/22 were launched in December and are experiencing very positive demand. Bookings for Summer 2021 are currently significantly ahead of last year, although it is evident that many customers are looking for further certainty around quarantine rules prior to booking.
“We retain significant operational flexibility to enable us to capture pent-up demand and are able to ramp up flying quickly when demand returns.
“We see significant capacity leaving primary airports around Europe as legacy carriers are dramatically scaling back their short haul operations. Competition at bases such as Paris, Milan, London Gatwick and Geneva is expected to be very much diminished, with competitors’ aircraft being retired.
“EasyJet is uniquely positioned to strengthen its positions at these primary airports, where we have very high head-to-head overlap and generate our best returns due to scale. Legacy carriers operated 71 million seats on easyJet routes in the 2019 financial year.”
EasyJet said it expects to fly only 10% of flights between now and the end of March.
