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easyJet PLC07 March 2007 07 March 2007 EASYJET PASSENGER STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY 2007 ____________________________________________________________________ Month ending February 2007 February 2006 Change Passengers1 2,646,775 2,373,706 + 11.5 % Load Factor2 82.8% 83.7% - 0.9 pp____________________________________________________________________ Rolling 12 months ending February 2007 February 2006 Change Passengers1 34,205,676 30,739,609 + 11.3 % Load Factor2 84.5% 84.5% 0.0 pp Total Revenue (unaudited)3 £1,689m £1,408m + 20.0 %__________________________________________________________________ easyJet launched its seventeenth base at Madrid Barajas airport in February.With four new Airbus A319 aircraft permanently based there, and eighteen routesavailable including three domestic, thirteen European and two to North Africa,easyJet expects to carry over two million passengers from Madrid in 2007. Reflecting its significance for the city and the wider region, easyJet'sexpansion was welcomed by the President of the Madrid region and the Secretaryof State for Transportation in Spain, both of whom attended the launch of thenew base. 1.Represents the number of earned seats flown. Earned seats include seats thatare flown whether or not the passenger turns up because easyJet is a no-refundairline, and once a flight has departed a no-show customer is generally notentitled to change flights or seek a refund. Earned seats also include seatsprovided for promotional purposes and to staff for business travel. 2. Represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of seatsavailable for passengers. No weighting of the load factor is carried out torecognise the effect of varying flight (or "stage") lengths. 3. Represents statutory revenue (unaudited). END For further details please contact: easyJet plc Financial:Julia Collins, Investor Relations +44 (0) 1582 525 258 Press:Toby Nicol, Corporate Communications +44 (0) 1582 525 339 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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