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Thursday 19 May 2022 7:16 am  |  Updated:  Thursday 19 May 2022 7:49 am

Easyjet makes comeback from pandemic lows as airline expects to sell 97 per cent of all seats next quarter

By: Michiel Willems

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Easyjet's chief executive has today called on the government to provide details of how it will relax its current border restrictions in order to give people the confidence to travel again.

Budget airline easyJet said this morning that it hopes to carry nearly as many passengers in the last few months of this year as it did in 2019, marking a comeback from the lows of the pandemic.

The business said that it is planning to sell 97% of the seats during the final quarter than it did pre-pandemic.

It managed to decrease its pre-tax loss in the first half from £645 million in the first half of last year to £557m this time around.

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