• The vehicles have been rolled out at the airline’s major bases including Berlin Brandenburg, London Luton, Bristol and Liverpool Airport

  • Replacing older petrol and diesel-fuelled vans with new electric vans will see easyJet reduce its engineering fleet emissions by 28%

  • This is part of a wider fleet renewal programme which will be implemented at all easyJet engineering bases across the UK and Europe.

 

easyJet is set to make a saving of 54 tonnes of CO2e per year* thanks to an ongoing fleet renewal programme for its engineering and maintenance vehicles at several of its major bases across the UK and Europe.

Replacing traditional petrol and diesel-powered vehicles for engineering and maintenance teams across its operations. The new fleet of active vans, 36 in total, has been rolled out at easyJet’s engineering bases including Berlin, Luton, Bristol and Liverpool airport.

The airline is planning to continue this roll out across other engineering bases in FY25, at which point 80% of easyJet’s bases will be using fully electric maintenance vans.

Speaking on the initiative, Jane Ashton, Director of Sustainability said:

“After a successful, small-scale trial at Berlin Airport last year, which saw the conversion of a number of maintenance vehicles to electric our immediate step was to expand on a much bigger scale across our UK and European bases.

“This small but critical move will help us further reduce the impact of our ground operations and we continue to try and find new ways to do this every day through the integration of operational efficiencies including fleet renewal both for aircraft and maintenance vehicles as well as fleet optimisation through various new technologies.”

easyJet continues to work towards its Net Zero ambition, outlined in its Net Zero roadmap launched two years ago, and already achieved a 5% improvement in carbon intensity in 2023 vs the baseline year of 2019.

 

ENDS

For further information, please contact the easyJet Press Office on 01582 525252, log onto www.easyJet.com or follow @easyJet_Press

 

Notes to editors:

* Figures based on FY23 carbon emissions from engineering fleet

 

Overview of vehicle distribution across easyJet’s bases

 

 

 

Base

Number of Electric Vehicles

Status/ date expected

Belfast

2

2025

Berlin

11

Active

Birmingham

2

2025

Bristol

10

Active

Edinburgh

4

2025

Glasgow

2

2025

Liverpool

4

Active

Luton

11

Active

London Gatwick

TBD

TBD

Manchester

TBD

TBD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About easyJet

easyJet is Europe’s leading airline offering a unique and winning combination of the best route network connecting Europe's primary airports with great value fares and friendly service.

easyJet flies on more of Europe’s most popular routes than any other airline and carried more than 82 million passengers in 2023 with more than 11.3 million travelling for business. The airline has over 300 aircraft flying on nearly 1000 routes to more than 155 airports across 35 countries. Over 300 million Europeans live within one hour's drive of an easyJet airport.

easyJet aims to be a good corporate citizen, employing people on local contracts in eight countries across Europe in full compliance with national laws and recognising their trade unions. The airline supports several local charities and has a corporate partnership with UNICEF which has raised nearly £17m for the most vulnerable children since it was established in 2012.

In 2022, easyJet published its roadmap to net zero by 2050. The roadmap, which also features a combination of fleet renewal, operational efficiencies, airspace modernisation, Sustainable Aviation Fuel and carbon removal technology, has set an ambitious interim carbon emissions intensity reduction target of 35% by 2035. The airline’s ultimate aim is to fully transition its fleet to zero carbon emission technology, which it will achieve through a number of strategic partnerships including with Airbus, Rolls-Royce and GKN Aerospace Solutions. Since 2000, the airline has successfully reduced its carbon emissions per passenger, per kilometre by one-third.  

 

Innovation is in easyJet’s DNA – since launching nearly 30 years ago, easyJet changed the way people fly to the present day where the airline leads the industry in digital and operational innovations to make travel more easy and affordable for its passengers.

In 2023 easyJet was named by TIME as one of the World’s Best Companies and a Leader in Diversity 2024 by The Financial Times.