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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Gwyn Topham

Johan Lundgren: ‘I get upset when people say we should just stop flying’

Portrait of John Lundgren leaning against a balcony railing and looking out to the right of the picture, with the river Thames and the London Eye behind him
Johan Lundgren of easyJet: ‘Massive investment in rail infrastructure would mean you would take the carbon hit now and by the time they’d be ready you’d see new technology in aviation.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

The clouds are lifting for travel and aviation as it looks forward to the first half-term for two years free of most Covid shackles. Bookings have boomed since the decision that travel testing would end – and easyJet, the airline that carries the most UK passengers, has just welcomed staff who were working remotely back to the Luton hangar that serves as head office.

If optimism is growing that business could return to pre-pandemic levels by summer, easyJet’s chief executive, Johan Lundgren, is clear that the crisis is not yet done.

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