New EasyJet CEO sets far-reaching agenda, including a hybrid-power plane
London — EasyJet CEO Johan Lundgren laid out plans to serve 13% 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 December 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 England-based airline said in a statement on Wednesday. EasyJet’s transfer programme with long-haul carriers will expand to cover about half its routes during the year. "My ambition is to help EasyJet go from strength to strength next year," Lundgren said in the statement. "Reaching these milestones will be a result of the successful delivery of our strategy of purposeful and disciplined growth." The strategy builds on McCall’s efforts to turn EasyJet into a serious competitor to the likes of Dublin-based Ryanair Holdings and Europe’s biggest flag carriers. McCal...
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