EasyJet's New CEO Aims to Follow McCall With Boost in Passengers
- Lundgren sets first-year goal of serving 90 million fliers
- About half of routes will provide links to long-haul airlines
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EasyJet Plc Chief Executive Officer Johan Lundgren laid out plans to serve 13 percent more passengers, widen links with other airlines and help pioneer testing of a hybrid-power plane in his first year of leading the discount carrier.
Lundgren, who succeeded Carolyn McCall as CEO on Dec. 1, said EasyJet will carry about 90 million travelers in 2018, helped by its purchase of Air Berlin’s operations at the German capital’s Tegel airport, the Luton, England-based airline said Wednesday in a statement. EasyJet’s transfer program with long-haul carriers will expand to cover about half of its routes during the year.