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easyJet PLC07 November 2005 7th November 2005 EASYJET PASSENGER STATISTICS FOR OCTOBER 2005____________________________________________________________________ Month ending October 2005 October 2004 Change Passengers1 2,734,931 2,405,073 + 13.7%Load Factor2 85.6% 87.0% - 1.4pp ____________________________________________________________________ Rolling 12 months ending October 2005 October 2004 Change Passengers1 29,887,498 24,827,915 + 20.4%Load Factor2 85.1% 84.7% + 0.4 ppTotal Revenue (Unaudited) 3 £1,358m £1,114m + 21.8% __________________________________________________________________ Ray Webster, easyJet Chief Executive, said: "October was a good month for air travellers in both Italy and the UK. Firstly,easyJet announced that some one million passengers a year will benefit from it'slow fares to the most convenient airports when it opens its next operationalbase, at Milan Malpensa, in March 2006. This came only a few days after easyJetannounced a rescue package for the thousands of passengers stranded by yetanother strike at Alitalia. "Secondly, easyJet welcomed the UK Government's rejection of a £250 million raidon air travellers. The UK Civil Aviation Authority had proposed a flat-rate taxon passengers to build a fund for passengers in the event of a tour operator orairline failure - but this would have represented nothing more than a subsidyfrom the financially-healthy to the financially weak and from short-haullow-cost airlines to long-haul high-cost airlines. "We will provide an outlook for the current financial year which began on 1October at the announcement of our preliminary results for the financial yearended September 2005, to be held on 22 November 2005." END For further details please contact: easyJet plc Financial:Andrew Barker, Investor Relations +44 (0) 1582 525 982 Press:Toby Nicol, Corporate Communications +44 (0) 1582 525 339 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 unaudited statutory revenue, which includes the invoiced value ofairline and ancillary services, net of passenger tax This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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