EasyJet worried about World Cup behavior

EasyJet, the British low-cost airline, is having difficulty prediciting passengers behavior this summer as the football World Cup might influence their holiday choices and bookings.

Carolyn Mccall, Chief Executive, warned of future difficulties the company might encounter because many people will choose to stay at home and follow the football World Cup on TV and then decide their holiday travel dates and destination. Also, how long their country's team will stay in the competition may be a factor.

However, the company declared that it already has 51% of its seats occupied from April to September and that it generated bigger than expected pretax earnings, the equivalent of 65 million euros.

The airline is doing better as far as profits go thanks to 'ruthless focus on cost' and changes in passenger booking policies such as allowing clients to change flights.