The chief executive of easyJet is happy with the airline’s current fleet plans, and said there is no risk it won’t have sufficient planes to meet its growth targets.
Demand for new Airbus and Boeing planes is booming as travel rebounds after the pandemic, with airlines placing orders now to secure narrow-bodies for later in the decade amid worries that the planemakers are nearly sold out.
Ryanair, Europe’s biggest airline, sealed a multibillion-dollar deal for as many as 300 Boeing jets earlier this month, helping to underpin its plan to almost double annual traffic to 300 million passengers by March 2034.
