Easyjet CEO said it could fly planes with empty middle seats to stick with coronavirus physical distancing guidelines when flights resume
Passengers used to flying on crowded and cramped low-cost airlines could face a surprise when EasyJet’s flights return after its fleet was grounded because of the coronavirus pandemic. CEO Johan Lundgren has proposed that middle seats could be kept empty to keep passengers safe. ...
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary branded plans to remove middle seats as “mad” and “ineffective” and warned that plan would be uneconomical for most airlines. “We’re in dialogue with regulators who are sitting in their bedrooms inventing restrictions such as taking out the middle seats, which is just nonsense,” O’Leary toldEasyJet forecast that it would take a $231 million to $256 million loss in the first half to March 31, 2020. The airline pared back losses from $344 million in the same period from last year.
The airline also announced it had raised $1.2 billion from loans and its credit lines, and planned to raise a further $685 million from the sale and leaseback of some of its aircraft. The move comes as the airline industry faces a major cash crunch, with many carriers turning to governments around the world for financial support to weather the sudden drop in travel demand, or enforced flight suspensions.: “Our assumption is that load factors will not be back to normal early on, which means that we will have the opportunity for a middle-seat option, but I’m talking about this as an initial phase and nobody knows for how long that phase will be,” said: $1.
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