Fight for your routes: Easyjet promises $200 London-Moscow fares for three years, if given chance
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EasyJet Plc CEO Carolyn McCall said the carrier should be awarded rights to fly to Moscow because it would undercut prices offered by Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd., which also wants to operate the route.
Europe’s second-biggest discount airline would guarantee a lead-in fare of 125 pounds ($202) for three years on the route, which it would serve twice daily from London’s Gatwick airport, McCall said today at a U.K. Civil Aviation Authority hearing.
EasyJet and Virgin are competing for the right to serve Moscow after the purchase of Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s BMI unit by British Airways-parent IAG created a vacancy. Under a bilateral treaty, two U.K. carriers ma
