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Carolyn McCall: ‘Good ambition’
EasyJet Holidays ‘on track’ to be Europe’s third-biggest firm
Lee Hayhurst
EasyJet Holidays is on track to achieve its ambition of rivalling Tui and Thomas Cook by becoming Europe’s number-three travel firm, the boss of the no-frills airline claimed. Speaking at a Travel Weekly Business Lunch, chief executive Carolyn McCall said the division now had the “right hotel partner”, having swapped Lowcostbeds for Tui Travel’s Hotelopia. McCall said easyJet Holidays was
currently a small part of its overall business, but that next summer it would make a big push in key package destinations and offer a price guarantee. “Hotelopia will galvanise what we do, partly because it means we can do it across Europe, so we are now in seven markets instead of one,” she said. “Aiming for the top three is a good ambition. We are not very far from that. We did not promote easyJet Holidays in the first three years, partly because we were having issues with Lowcostbeds and the branding and positioning of it. “You will see a very different
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promotion of easyJet Holidays. It will be market-driven so you will see it in the top markets for package holidays. “It gives us the ability to get to a pool of people who prefer to book packages and they can do it flexibly and at the right price.” McCall added that one customer
perception of easyJet Holidays and Lowcostbeds was of good-value flights but low-cost hotels. “We will have a price guarantee,” she added. “You will get brilliant hotels, the hotels you want, the flights you want on the days you want and at the right price.” McCall would not disclose the volume
of packages easyJet hopes to sell next summer. Lowcostbeds, which won the easyJet Holidays contract in 2011, provided financial protection through insurance whereas Hotelopia’s packages are Atol-protected. In March, easyJet Holidays general manager Mandy Round said it expected to pick up a “significant proportion” of the 90% of its 60 million annual customers who buy accommodation. ❯ EasyJet hikes forecast profit, page 84
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