The start of the new business travel season is well and truly underway: during the first week of September, a passenger in four boarding a flight easyJet did it for a professional reasonaccording to data published on 6 October by the airline. This is equivalent to the ratio before the health crisis, a sign that the recovery is - at last - on track. September would even be the month in which easyJet recorded its highest best performances in the business travel segment since February 2020. " We are very pleased to see positive signs of recovery in business travel across our network and in France in particular, where the share of business travellers reaches more than 30 % on average and up to 50 % on certain domestic lines "Bertrand Godinot, easyJet's Managing Director for France, is delighted.
SMEs spearhead the recovery
easyJet attributes this good performance in particular to its SME customers, ". spearheading the recovery ", " driving the recovery "and the domestic market. "The company intends to 58 % business travellers favouring domestic lines "it goes on to say. As a result, the new routes launched by easyJet in recent weeks - notably on the Paris Orly-Montpellier and Paris-Orly- Montpellier routes - will be the first of their kind in France.Toulon - should also help to attract even more business travellers, as the airline currently connects 21 French airports.
Surfing on this business demand on the French network, easyJet is going to expand its offeringThe new services will be available not only from Paris - to Nice and Toulouse - but also from one region to another. The Nantes-Toulouse, Nantes-Lyon, Lyon-Bordeaux and Lyon-Toulouse routes will benefit from additional frequencies. The network Europe is not forgotten by the airline, which is also planning to increase its services from Paris to a number of strategic destinations for business travellers, including Berlin, Milan, London and Venice.
