In a highly welcomed move, easyJet, the low cost airline has introduced a brand new service connecting London Gatwick Airport with the French seaside resort of Biarritz.

On its launch, the low-cost carrier is to offer four times weekly services to this most popular southwestern town. The flights under this service are scheduled to depart four times a week, with flights available on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

The airline has also introduced most attractive one-way fares starting from just £25.99. Amazingly, this price included all taxes and other charges. The airline is highly positive that this route shall prove to be highly popular among the passengers flying to the region. The airline says it expects not less than 10,000 passengers who would take advantage of this amazing offer and make their flight during the first year.

Celebrating the arrival of the eleventh aircraft based at the Milan Malpensa Airport, easyJet announced that it has concrete plans to expand further at this most important airport in the Northern Italy.

In the month of October, the airline is to base two additional aircrafts at Malpensa, taking up the total number of aircrafts of easyJet based in this airport to 13 as the winter schedule commences. Notably, this progress has been achieved within two and a half years of launching its services from this important base.

These new aircrafts shall be employed on five new routes to the European capitals of Copenhagen, Stockholm and Sofia besides offering domestic links to destinations like Brindisi and Lamezia Terme. Over and above, the airline has also plans to increase frequencies on some of the key routes operated to Barcelona, Naples, Amsterdam and Paris in the month of October.

In a significant move, easyJet has launched a facility to enable passengers purchase extra weight allowance for holding their baggage ahead of their flight. According to the new facility, passengers can pay for their excess weight charges online, at a highly attractive rate.  This move is also a measure to save them time at the airport check-in.

The facility will be made available in 3 kg denominations. The scheme also enables that passengers save £3 when compared to the rate of £15 per 3kgs charged at the check-in desk charged on the day of travel.

According to the earlier scheme, if a customer wants to pre-pay for excess luggage carried while travel after the booking has been made, this can be done only through the contact center. On the launch of the new scheme, the customers can pre-pay for the excess baggage right at the time of booking, either online or over the telephone according to their convenience. Even as the new scheme comes into force, the earlier scheme of paying the extra charges at the airport still continues, however at a higher rate. 

Europe's fourth largest carrier easyJet, will start making use of Lufthansa Systems Lido Operations Centre (Lido OC) to plan all its service routings from the month of October this year.

With the Lido OC flight planning solution, the carrier will be able to optimise its flight planning, minimise fuel consumption and bring considerable cost-savings, according to a spokesman. This is a great step towards implementing technology for the saving of resources and fuel by the airlines and it will help them tremendously.

The carrier's Operations Director, Cor Vrieswijk, said, "The recent surges in oil prices are having a dramatic effect on European aviation. As a result easyJet are taking a range of measures to reduce our costs and improve fuel efficiency".

easyJet, one of the Europe's largest low fares carrier, has noted a sharp upturn in the satisfaction levels of staff after taking in a scheme for the recruitment of European employees from their home nations, reports Personnel Today.

The project, Turning Europe Orange, which was introduced by the carrier in early last year, has witnessed the carrier recruit employees from all around the Europe with terms and conditions exclusive to the nations they are living in, rather than depending on the UK-based work force to work on pan-European services.

The London Luton airport-based low-cost carrier's People Director, Mr. Mike Campbell, revealed to the magazine that the scheme-which he said was one of its kind to the airline market-improved satisfaction levels for the airline's 9000 Europe-wide employees from 69 per cent in the year 2005, to 82 per cent in the year 2007.

easyJet, the low fares carrier, said today that it was starting a ninety-day discussion with the member of its staff on whether to close its base in Dortmund, Germany.

The London Luton airport-based budget carrier also said that it would axe about half of all of its services from the airport in its winter season. This in the wake of rising fuel costs whereby many airlines are facing the tough times of downing flights that are not viable due to the costs in operating those flights.

In a statement, the carrier said that it was thinking about the closure due to the operating schedule at the airport.

easyJet, the low-cost carrier, and CFM International celebrated delivery of the carrier's first A319 plane powered by CFM56-5B Tech Insertion engines.

The delivery of A319 aircraft is part of the ambition of the low fares carrier to turn out to be one of the most environmentally-efficient airlines in the world. This is one of those steps by the airlines that can inspire more airlines to buy planes that more efficient and offer help to the concept of green travel.

In a statement, it said that the new engines will cut mono-nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions by twenty-five per cent and bring extensive progress in terms of fuel consumption, maintenance costs and carbon dioxide emissions. So, the air carrier is allowing its passengers to make their travel carbon guilt-free, which is making many passengers discouraged about the future of air travel.

Confirm your booking by midnight on the 10th of June and enjoy discounted fares on a large number of flights.

EasyJet, the low cost carrier, has put cut priced tickets on all of its routes for sale. This is a great news for passengers who are facing flight crunch due to many airlines grounding their flights and routes.

The London Luton airport-based no-frills airline is offering discounts of up to twenty per cent on all of its flights for peak-season that runs between the 16th of June and the 17th of July.

easyJet, the London Luton-airport based low-cost carrier, reported a  15.9 per cent rise in its passenger numbers in the month of May, but its load factor declined by 0.4 percentage points, compared to an increase of 22 per cent in passenger numbers and a flat load factor (at 80 per cent) in the same month with Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair.

The airlines are facing this tough time of low and up in passengers load due to the rising costs of fuel and change in fare of flights, which are forcing many passengers to change the preferences for the routes operated by more than one airlines.

easyJet, one of the Europe's largest low-cost carriers, carried 3.878 million travellers in the month of May (Ryanair had 5.06 million), up 15.9 per cent on the 3.345 million transported in the month of May a year ago.

easyJet, one of the Europe's largest low-fares carrier, has introduced a new daily service to Nantes from London Gatwick Airport. This is a great opportunity for passengers of easyJet to travel to the city of Nantes with such a low price of ticket in the wake of rising fuel costs around the world.

The London Luton airport-based budget carrier started operating the new route between the London hub and the French city on 21st May.

One-way tickets for the new service are available at a price starting from as little as £23.99, with return fares available at just £43.60. All the fares are inclusive of taxes.

easyJet, the low-cost carrier, has started operating its services on a new route to Murcia from Newcastle International Airport, offering passengers an opportunity to go to one of the most popular destinations in east coast of Spain. This is great news for passengers of easyJet as they will be able to visit the growing destination of Spain.

The airline's new service to Murcia is its seventeenth route from Newcastle airport. So, overall, this is a great advancement of destinations and flights for the passengers of easyJet and Newcastle Airport.

The London Luton based budget carrier will serve the route with a three times a week service, operating on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. Return tickets for the new service are available at a price starting from just £46.98.

In a recent significant move, easyJet has declared its plans to offer a brand new service connecting Manchester Airport and the Spanish city of Alicante. The said services are to commence on 29th September. Once the service is launched, the reputed low-cost airline will be operating four flights a week on the route. The one-way fares in the route cost from as low as £27.99. The rates are inclusive of all charges and tax.

The new route comes forth in response to a popular demand with the tourists and travelers. More so, those families setting out with a short break away in this highly popular Spanish destination exclusively prefer the route. In this one route alone, it is expected that not less than 60,000 passengers will travel within the first twelve months of launching the brand new service. Notably, Manchester is easyJet's new base in the region and this is the first new route introduced by the airline from Manchester. The airline is highly hopeful of further expansion in this route in the near future.

Carly Brear, EasyJet spokesperson observed, "This is the first new route easyJet has introduced to its new Manchester base and we look forward to further expansion in the near future. Alicante has proven to be a popular destination from other easyJet bases in the UK and now independent travellers from the north-west can take advantage of this new service from our Manchester base, to one of Spain's most popular tourist destinations."

easyJet, one of the Europe's largest low-fares carriers, has Britain's most popular flight-booking website, reveals a new survey conducted by Which?. This is sort of boost for the major airlines as it reveals that customers love to plan their travel using easyjet's services online.

This news appears a week after Hitwise said that the London Luton based carrier was the UK's favourite travel website.

According to a survey in the Which? Holiday magazine, flights are the most popular online travel bookings and one in five people ranked easyJet as the best. And, the largest carrier and the flag carrier of United Kingdom, British Airways (BA) secured the second place in the survey with 18 per cent of those survey positively rating the website of the carrier.

Yesterday, easyJet, the low cost carrier introduced a brand new service connecting Edinburgh and Nice. The first flight of the service took off from Edinburgh on 24th April, when the airline delightfully invited the passengers aboard. The introduction of the new route is said to follow a popular demand for more services in the said route. With a highly mounting demand, the said service is expected to carry not less than 20,000 passengers during the next 12 months alone. 

Under the new service, flights will be available on Saturdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. The cost of one-way tickets in the route starts from £25.99, while the return tickets are priced from £47.66.

Low fare air carriers are becoming highly popular among holidaymakers seeking to work on an affordable budget to make the most out of their holidays. The new addition to the easyJet network has already gained a significant popularity among the travelers as revealed through a significant number of forward bookings. With Nice, emerging as one of the most favourite sunspots, the new launch becomes a significant one in the easyJet network.

easyJet, one of the largest low-fare airlines in Europe, started its first flight to Faro, Portugal from Glasgow, giving customers in Scotland the chance to getaway to the sun.

The London Luton based airline will operate the new service two times a week: on Tuesdays and Saturdays. And, during the busy summer period of June 26th to August 28th, it will be operating on a three times a week basis. One way tickets are available at a price starting from just £23.99.

The budget carrier expects to serve 16,000 travellers on the route over a period of next one year giving Glaswegians an opportunity to enjoy a visit to the favorite holiday destinations: Faro is also a popular destination among golfers.

On 15th April, easyJet, the low-cost carrier announced that it has decided to withhold part of passenger charges payments that it owes to BAA, the operator of Gatwick Airport. The said decision of easyJet was conveyed to Colin Matthews, the new chief executive of BAA through a letter. The decision of easyJet follows the strict objection expressed by easyJet towards the 21 percent increase in passenger charges announced by BAA. Notably, this rise in charges came into effect on 1st April. 

Awaiting the outcome of a judicial review, the said payments in full measures will be withheld in a separate bank account. If easyJet should fail in the legal challenge, then the airline will arrange to pay the amount accrued till then in addition to the interest accumulated. If the judicial review turns favorable to the interests of passengers and easyJet, then easyJet will arrange to return the money to its customers. To agree on the principles of this proposal, easyJet has given time to BAA until tomorrow.

Andy Harrison, the Chief executive of easyJet remarked, "We are determined to address a regulatory decision which we consider to be unlawful and damaging for the airlines, our passengers and the industry as a whole. If we cannot reach agreement, easyJet will need to consider what arrangements it may be able to put in place without BAA's consent. If we agree on those principles, there will be some legal paperwork to set in place, so this letter is formally subject to contract."

During the inauguration ceremony that took place on 4th April, easyJet's Chief Executive Andy Harrison unveiled the 20th base of the airline at Lyon Saint Exupery airport. Mr. Gérard Collomb, the Mayor of Lyon, graced the ceremony held at the airport.

Forming part of a €600m investment project over four years, the brand new base at the second largest city of France will eventually strengthen the position of easyJet as the largest low-fares airlines of France. In addition, the investment is solely aimed at helping the airline increase its fleet operated from France from 6 to 20. As a result, the passenger number of 6 million in 2007 is expected to face a phenomenal rise to about 12 million by 2011.

Andy Harrison, easyJet's Chief Executive observed, "Today's event is a vital first step in our major investment that will see us double our presence in France by 2011 as we seek to bring the benefits of easyJet to France's air travellers and its wider society. We will be employing French people and flying French passengers from France's major airports on aircraft from Toulouse-based Airbus. No wonder we consider ourselves as the best French alternative to Air France."

With effect from 31st March, EasyJet, the low cost airline has launched its new services from Manchester. According to the announcement made by the airline, about six routes will be offered from Manchester including services to Malaga, Heraklion, Paphos, Malta and Tenerife. Most interestingly, by way of celebrating the new launch, the airline will tour around the city of Manchester in an orange bus giving away easyJet prices.

Notably, it is estimated that not less than half a million passengers will travel with easyJet on departures from Manchester during the next 12 months alone.

easyJet UK general manager, David Osborne observed, "Today easyJet has established a new base at Manchester, bringing the total number of easyJet bases in the UK to eleven. easyJet recognises the strong demand for low-cost convenient services from the North West and we are delighted to be the North West's largest airline."

In an interesting move, easyJet, has launched two new services connecting London Luton with Jersey and Pisa. The new service operated to Jersey will offer the travellers a rare access to some of the most stunning scenery in Europe. Notably, Pisa is a historic city dating back to several hundred years, highly noted for the world popular leaning tower. This place is also the gateway to the wonderful region of Tuscany located in Italy.

Jersey is located in the southernmost part of the British Isles. This is notably the largest of the Channel Islands offering breathtaking views of lush green valleys and the pristine coastal line. The generous taxation scheme of this place also sees proliferation of businesses.

The one-way charges of the new route to Jersey start from £21.99 and from £23.99 to Pisa inclusive of all charges and taxes. During the next twelve months alone, the airline is set to transport more than 100,000 passengers in either of these new routes. Interestingly, the most unique easyJet orange 'Jersey cow' will greet the passengers for the inaugural Jersey flight.

Located at the Southern end of the British Isles, Jersey is the biggest among the Channel Islands. The tourist importance of Jersey ensues from the spectacular views of its manicured fields, pristine pure coastal line stretching out to over 45 miles and an amazing sight of the lush green valleys. The dominating sea view presents a stunning backdrop to enjoy the breathtaking scenes of this region. The region boasts of magnificent looking cliffs, rocky coves and silky sand beaches. Notably, Jersey is also a renowned business centre with several businesses and banks proliferating on account of the generous taxation scheme and the developing conference trade.

The historic town of Pisa is ideally located at the banks of the Arno River in the beautiful Tuscany region. Renowned as an ancient city of cultural and political significance, the city now boasts of the world famous leaning tower, deemed as a marvelous architectural accomplishment of all times. Dating back to hundreds of years, a wide range of historical remains and monuments adorn the city rendering the city with a medieval look perfect for an educational getaway.

Catering to the growing tourism industry in these destinations, easyJet, the largest airline of the UK has launched two brand new daily services to Jersey and Pisa departing from London Luton. Inclusive of all taxes and charges, the one-way charges to Jersey start from £21.99 and to Pisa starts from £23.99. Within the next twelve months alone, the airline expects to transport 100,000 passengers on these routes.

Easter is just away over a week. This is the time for packing a bag and head for your local easyJet airport to escape with a choice of select cultural or relaxing destinations. Despite the reasons for you to go for a break, www.easyJetHolidays.com can help you fly off to your favourite spot with amazing 'Deals of the Week'. With attractive prices available on over thousands of holidays, you can really splash out with your dreams and treat yourself to a few exciting days during this holiday season.

At the outset, www.easyJetHolidays.com is the flight and accommodation package from easyJet. The sites features fantastic Deals of the Week meeting the best requirements of those a budget and looking for some inspiration to plan a holiday destination or for those seeking out an appropriate last minute getaway at affordable prices. Meeting all these expectations and requirements, the site contains a wide range of best deals to enjoy tailor-made holidays, including hotels and flights.

Logging on to the site, visitors can land on some of the perfect and select range of 'Deal of the Week' and can choose from a range of more than 103 airports, spread across 26 countries, over 10,000 hotels and apartments.

easyJet, the low fares carrier, is presenting late deals to Spain for flights in the month so March and April.

Fares offered by the carrier include flights from London Gatwick, Edinburgh, Bristol, London Luton, London Stansted and East Midlands.

Some of the destinations offered in the discounted fare offer include:

Offering its inaugural flight from East Midlands to Palma - Mallorca, easyJet, the UK's largest airline welcomed passengers onboard. This new launch provides the travellers of the region with a greater choice of destinations right from their local airport.

Presently, the services are operated thrice a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. The airline will offer daily services in this route from 12th April. The one-way charges start from £22.99, while the return charges are £35.35. The prices include all charges and taxes. EasyJet hopes to carry around 100,000 passengers in this route in the course of the next twelve months.

The Island of Mallorca, the largest of the Balearic Islands, boasts of several miles of golden beach ideal for an involved family holiday. The historic city of Palma offers a range of designer shops for ultimate shopping experience.

On 7th February, EasyJet launched its brand new service connecting East Midlands Airport and Palma de Mallorca. Under this new service, easyJet will operate its flights three times a week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday until 12th April. After this date, the airline has plans to offer daily services in the route. An industry analysis reveals that the present move is a strategic one considering the increasing demand in this route. This is a very good offer for passengers of Easyjet.

By way of celebrating the launch of this new service, EasyJet has announced attractive introduction offers. According to this discount offer, one-way charges are priced at £22.99. For return journey, the rates start at only £35.35. Both these fares include all charges and taxes.

The move follows as Palma is becoming increasingly popular for family holidays and city break. David Osborne, easyJet UK general manager enthusiastically welcomed the inaugural flight of this new service and observed that there has been a broad popular appeal for this destination. In the next year alone, the airline hopes to serve more than 100,000 passengers in this route.

Recently, EasyJet has opened its new base at Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. Notably, this increases the total number of the airline's bases to 19. The airline has outlined its target to serve around 12 million passengers by 2011. This new move forms part of the airline's €600m investment in the region over a four-year-period and will see the increase of easyJet's flights in France to 20 from six.

The other base of the airline at France will be at Orly Aiport, located at the south of Paris. From these two bases at the French capital, easyJet will operate over 28 routes to domestic, European and North African destinations, targeting to serve about four million passengers during this year alone.

easyJet's chief executive Andy Harrison observed, "Today's event is a vital first step in our major investment that will see us double our presence in France by 2011 as we seek to bring the benefits of easyJet to France's air travellers and its wider society. We will be employing French people and flying French passengers from France's major airports on aircraft from Toulouse-based Airbus. No wonder we consider ourselves as the best French alternative to Air France."

In an interesting move, easyJet has announced an amazing 25 percent discount on all seats for journeys during the month of April. All bookings under this discount offer must however be booked by midnight on the 5th of February. The fares given below under the discounted offer is meant for one-way journey and includes all charges and taxes.

For journey on Tuesday, the 1st April from Bristol to Amsterdam, the charges start from £20.99. Journey between Birmingham to Grenoble on Sunday, the 6th April starts from £20.99. On Tuesday, the 15th April, a trip from East Midlands to Faro starts from £35.99. On Monday, the 14th of April, charges between Edinburgh and Dortmund cost from £20.99. From Glasgow to Majorca on Saturday, the 26th of April the charges are from £59.99. The trip between Liverpool and Amsterdam on Tuesday, the 22nd of April starts from £15.99.

Between London Gatwick and Barcelona, the cost of journey on Monday, the 28th of April starts from £22.99. On Wednesday, the 16th of April, the cost between London Luton and Athens starts from £56.99. In the Manchester to Malta route, the cost of journey on Monday, the 21st of April starts from £57.99. Between Newcastle and Krakow, the price of ticket on Wednesday, the 23rd of April starts from £16.99.

Using ntl:Telewest Business for this purpose, easyJet is providing 300 digital lines to link four sites at Luton Airport, which will network the datacenters of the company. The project occurs as the latest step in the up gradation programme of the airline to improve the infrastructure of its networks following the recent installation of a local area network and IP telephony system at the brand new corporate HQ located at the airport.

easyJet will employ the 300 ISDN lines to establish a 'single communications environment' that will offer data, voice and internet services across four sites of the airport. The connection will provide an integrated seamless service enabling the users to forward information besides making calls simultaneously. The process is also expected to provide a highly cost effective way for the airline to connect workgroups functioning from other locations.

The network infrastructure up gradation process is a timely move, when a 60% increase in traffic to its website was anticipated last month. Most notably, easyJet has flied around 3 million passengers in January alone, besides accepting bookings for journeys up until October.

Free and cut-priced flights have been put on offer on easyJet services for those holding a new credit card, as part of a new offering by Citi Cards-the card provider. This would be a healthy offer for passengers of easyJet.

In the new offering, easyJet Mastercard, card holders will be able to enjoy a number of flight advantages, including a free seat (costing £40), if they are spending £250 within a period of three months after their cards are activated.

And, within a period of same time, cardholders will also be able to enjoy a ten per cent back on all the flights booked with easyJet, if they use their card for bookings.

UK's biggest airline, easyJet, will greet the arrivals onboard today at its introductory flight from Liverpool to Innsbruck in Austria. It will provide better option of destinations from the local airport to the region's travellers.

The benefit of Cheap flights can be had thrice in a week (Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday) in just £24.99 one way comprising taxes and the airline assumes to have 10,000 arrivals on the route this winter. In the winter season, such offers are very much liked by the skiers and they just love such low-price offers but have a good schedule in them. Easyjet is offering a good price to its passengers would deliver a quality service, and the offer can be a great hit among the ski lovers who would be flying to various destinations in this winter season.

The native capital of the Tyrol is Innsbruck which is located in the valley of the Inn River among the Alps and the Tuxer Mountains. The forthcoming and famous new cheapest destinations for 2008, the beautiful city of Innsbruck is known as the "Capital of the Alps" and is the accurate gateway for snowsports enthusiasts to reach the amazing Austrian ski resorts.

Confirm your flight booking by midnight on the 15th of January and take advantage of a special discounted fare sale. UK's largest low-fares carrier, easyJet is running a special offer of up to twenty-five per cent off on all of is flights booked for any date between the 12th of February and the 31st of May. This is a great chance for passengers to avail the opportunity.

In this special sale of discounted tickets, the carrier is offering more than 12 million seats.

Some of the fares available in the offer are:

On January 8, easyJet-the low cost airline--has started operating its services on its new route between Liverpool and the Austrian city of Innsbruck, offering a great option to its passengers.

The budget airline will operate a three times weekly service on its new route:  on Tuesdays, Thursday and Sundays. The fares for the new services are available from as low as £24.99 one way and £44.98 return. The quoted price also includes all the taxes.

The city of Innsbruck, which has a status of being the provincial capital of the Tyrol, is also popularly known as the Capital of the Alps. The destination offers a gateway to snow-sports for those who are looking for ski resorts in Austria.

EasyJet, UK's largest low-cost airline, has announced that it will maintain its policy of giving permission to travellers to take only one piece of hand luggage onto its flights, despite the announcement of the Government that from the 7th of January, there will be no restriction for carrying only one hand bag rule at a number of airports in the UK.

The carrier said that its decision to continue with the policy reflects a thought that the present situation about the one hand bag rule could lead to confusion among traveller and an increase in prices.

Andy Harrison, easyJet's chief executive, said, "There is massive scope for customer confusion in an environment where UK airports are adopting different policies. The only way to maintain a simple and standard policy is to maintain our one bag policy".

Holidaymakers who are looking for a sunshine escape, a luxurious city break or a cheeky weekend spring holiday, will surely be able to find an option.

UK's largest low-cost carrier, easyJet, started an exciting easyJetHolidays New Year sale-one million easyJetHolidays available for booking, at a price of less than £199 return. Offer price includes flight tickets, hotel accommodation and all the taxes.

On 360 routes, over 10,000 hotels across 23 European nations have been put on offer.

All the thirty-two routes to be served by GB Airways for the summer 2008 are now offered at www.easyJet.com. The offers include flights to sunshine places including Corfu, the Greek Islands, Sharm El Sheikh, the Canary Islands and Turkey. Most of these are available from Gatwick Airport-the main hub of the carrier.

In the month of October 2007, the budget airline, easyJet revealed its plan to purchase Gatwick-based GB airways for £103.5 million.

At present, GB airways is operating as a franchise of British Airways. But it will be only until 29th March.

EasyJet, the low-cost airline, is offering cheap fares on its flights to Europe's ski resorts for people who are planning to enjoy a heavy snow forecasted for this weekend all around the continent.

According to forecasts, heavy snowfall is expected across the Alps, Pyrenees and Iberian mountains by this weekend. The budget carrier offering discounted fare deals to places in Germany, France, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Austria, Slovenia and Italy.

The destinations on offer include:

easyJet, the low fares carrier will start operating a new service from Gatwick to Biarritz in the next summer season. The carrier will start its new service on the 4th of July, and will offer a four times a week service on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The price of tickets for the new service will start from just £25.99 one-way, including all the taxes.

This is a great news for passengers who are looking to visit this great destination of France. They would surely be delighted by the offer made by easyJet--a favourite airlines among the holidaymakers of UK.

Biarritz, an authentic and elegant resort, is located on the south-west coast of France, and is the perfect choice for a weekend getaway or a short break.

A new fast check-in option has been launched by the low cost airline, easyJet on 18th December. The new option has been introduced to benefit users of the airline's Speeding Boarding service-the latest innovation of the carrier to offer its passengers more choice and flexibility.

The new fast check-in option offers a dedicated check-in desk for the customers who have made additional payments to be among the first passengers to board a flight but still have luggage to check-in.

Andy Harrison, the chief executive of the airline, said, "Speedy Boarding Plus is the latest easyJet innovation to give our customers more choice and flexibility. This new facility builds on the success of Speedy Boarding by not only providing passengers with the opportunity to board a flight first and have a wider choice of seats, but will also offer them a dedicated check-in area".

Low cost airline, easyjet has shaped its plans by for the North West of England and Manchester Airport will be home to a new base of the carrier.

Earlier this year, easyJet has taken over GB Airways, and after this takeover, the budget airline has to re-brand two planes in its characteristic orange livery. The airline aims to have 5 planes at the airport by the year 2010.

Meanwhile, the low cost airline has also revealed that it will have 10 flying machines based at Liverpool John Lennon Airport by the year 2010 as well, which will make it the biggest carrier in the region. And, it will be able to offer its services on 40 routes to around 8 million customers within a drive on an hour of the two airports.