easyJet Opens New Base at Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport

easyJet has announced that it has opened its 19th base at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. The airline has claimed that the new base is part of an E600 million investment over a four-year-period that will strengthen its position French air transportation market.

According to easyJet, the investment will enable it to increase its fleet in France from six based aircraft to 20 and to double the number of passengers from six million in 2007 to 12 million in 2011. Initially three brand-new Airbus A319 aircraft will be based at Charles de Gaulle Airport, an investment of E120 million which will create around 120 jobs for pilots and cabin crews.

In addition to 11 existing routes at Charles de Gaulle, easyJet launches six new routes to Hamburg, Krakow, Venice, Biarritz, Porto and Marrakesh. With two bases in Paris, easyJet will offer 28 routes to domestic, European and North African destinations from the French capital.

Andy Harrison, CEO of easyJet, said: “easyJet’s unique combination of low fares, care and convenience has proven to be very popular in France over the last 12 years, and there is a strong desire among consumers for more choice. With a lost-cost penetration that is half the European average, France’s air transport market still suffers from a lack of affordable, direct air links and therefore offers huge opportunities for easyJet.”