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One of the biggest costs for the business is fuel. The main suppliers are Shell,
Air BP, Exxon and Q8. easyJet’s IT systems include agreements with AIMS,
who provide crew, aircraft and flight management control and operation
software; SAVVIS who provide data centre hosting facilities; Jeppesen
who provide flight planning systems; SOPRA who develop the reservations
system; Carillion who run easyJet’s IT helpdesk and Agresso who provide
easyJet’s accounting system.
On 30 September 2008, the Company had 20 bases. The table below
shows the operator and ground handler by base.
Base Operator Ground handler
Basel EuroAirport Basel- Swissport
Mulhouse-Freiburg
Belfast Abertis Menzies
Berlin Flughafen Berlin Schönefeld Globeground
Berlin
Bristol South West Airports Servisair
Dortmund Flughafen Dortmund Dortmund HS
East Midlands Manchester Airports Group Menzies
Edinburgh BAA Menzies
Geneva Geneva International Airport Swissport
Glasgow BAA Menzies
Liverpool Peel Holdings Servisair
London – Gatwick BAA Menzies
London – Luton Abertis Menzies
London – Stansted BAA Swissport
Lyon Aeroports de Lyon Aviapartner
Madrid AENA Swissport
Menzies
Manchester Manchester Airports Group Menzies
Milan – Malpensa Aeroporti di Milano SEA Handling
Newcastle Newcastle Airport Servisair
Paris – Charles Aeroports de Paris Group Europe
de Gaulle Handling
Paris – Orly Aeroports de Paris Servisair
easyJet’s main ancillary partners are Gate Gourmet, who provide inflight
merchandise, Europcar, who provide car rental, Hotelopia who broker hotels
and Elvia who through the Mondial brand provide insurance.
Credit card acquirers are Elavon, Lloyds TSB, Euroconnect, Barclays Merchant
Services and American Express. easyJet’s payment service providers
are CyberSource and Bibit.
The business is regulated by the CAA and easyJet Switzerland is regulated
by the FOCA. easyJet has important relationships with NATS and
Eurocontrol in relation to air traffic services.
The main unions the business deals with in the UK are BALPA, UNITE
and ALAE; in France it is SNPL; in Spain they are SEPLA and CCOO;
and in Italy CISLFISL.
Training services from CTC are used and flight simulation services
are received from CAE.
easyJet has a key relationship with easyGroup IP Licensing who
own the easyJet brand.
Going concern
The Directors are satisfied, after due consideration, that the Group has
sufficient financial resources to continue in operation for the foreseeable
future. On this basis, they continue to adopt the going concern principle
in preparing the financial statements.
Auditors
A resolution to reappoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors
of the Company will be put to shareholders at the forthcoming Annual
General Meeting.
Andrew Harrison Jeff Carr
Chief Executive Officer Group Finance Director
17 November 2008
easyJet plc
Annual report and accounts 2008
General information
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