november-2010

LAST WORD | FACTFINDER
WE ARE
15
No Way!
The best bit about
birthdays is the
surprises! If you’ve
just read this issue
you’ll probably feel
like you’ve got a
decent idea of who
we are, but we’ve
still got a few tricks
up our sleeves…
Our fi rst
international
route was
London Luton
to Amsterdam.
But did
you know
Amsterdam’s
Schiphol
Airport is
around 4m
below sea
level? Deep
breath, now.
190 | TRAVELLER | 15 TH BIRTHDAY ISSUE
LAST YEAR WE SOLD
1,919,765 BACON
BAGUETTES ONBOARD.
IF YOU PUT THEM
ALL END TO END,
THEY’D STRETCH
PRACTICALLY FROM
VENICE TO VIENNA.
We can house three
aircraft inside our
head offi ce at Luton
Airport – there’s
even a nice view of
the engines from our
meeting rooms.
OUR FIRST BASE OUTSIDE
LONDON WAS LIVERPOOL,
BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT
THE CITY IS HOME TO THE
BIGGEST BRICK BUILDING
IN THE WORLD? TWENTY-
SEVEN MILLION BRICKS AND
30,000 PANES OF GLASS
WERE USED TO CONSTRUCT
LIVERPOOL'S STANLEY DOCK
TOBACCO WAREHOUSE,
COMPLETED IN 1901.
Feeling thirsty? We served
6,365,423 cups of hot
chocolate, tea and coffee
last year – that’s more
than the number of people
who live in Denmark.
WHEN WE FIRST
LAUNCHED THE
IN-FLIGHT MAGAZINE,
IT WAS CALLED
EASY COME, EASY
GO. THE NAME WENT.
WE SELL ENOUGH
TRAVEL TICKETS
ONBOARD IN A
YEAR TO FILL
11,692 NATIONAL
EXPRESS BUSES.
More than
15 million
people a
month visit
easyJet.com.
That’s more
than the
combined
populations of
London, Paris
and Berlin.
IN SEPTEMBER THIS
YEAR, OUR PLANES
FLEW A TOTAL OF
39,653,883KM –
THAT’S ENOUGH TO
FLY TO THE MOON
AND BACK 50 TIMES.
We sell 760,000 litres of bottled
water a year. That’s enough
for the World Cup-winning
Spanish football team, their
manager Vicente del Bosque
and goalkeeper/captain Iker
Casillas’s TV reporter girlfriend
Sara Carbonero to have a
shower every day for two years.