A strike that will be expensive. The British airline Easyjet published an gain before increasing taxes on Thursday for its third quarter out of the ordinary, but warned that “unexpected and significant costs” would evaluate their summer result due to the air controllers strike in France in early July.
This social movement, on July 3 and 4, presented “unacceptable difficulties for customers and crews” and “also caused unexpected and important costs for all airlines,” the manager continued. Easyjet calculates the impact of this strike at 15 million pounds (17 million euros).
Directed by two minority unions of French skylights that demand an improvement in the working conditions and the largest personnel, this strike cost around 120 million euros for European companies, the monitoring of Eurocontrol air traffic last week.
An increase in billing
In the third quarter, Easyjet registered a benefit before a net increase in the increase by 21.2%, 286 million pounds (330 million euros), especially caused by a strong increase of more than 10% of its turnover, which totaled 2.9 billion pounds.
The company obtained these results “thanks to the high demand” of its customers, but also thanks to a favorable calendar for Easter holidays, says the company, which also observes the good performances of its easy -party holiday offer.
But Easyjet customers later reserve that before “and are more sensitive to prices due to economic uncertainty,” said Dan Coatsworth, AJ Bell analyst, for whom the company “continues to depend on the end of summer reserves to fill the unveiled seats.”
In the London Stock Exchange, Easyjet’s title fell more than 5% on Thursday around 10:15 AM GMT.
Source: BFM TV
