Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heathrow here we come? Kenton Jarvis, CEO of easyJet, alongside Fred Rivett, captain of easyJet’s first flight on 10 November 1995 ...

Thirty years ago to this day, the first orange and white liveried aircraft of the newly launched airline easyJet left from Luton Airport in the UK. Fast-forward to 2025, and the company is one of ...

EasyJet accused Castlelake of trying to buy the airline “on the cheap”. It rejected the bid, and another, for £4.9bn, on June 25th. Yet it has said it will now start talks with its suitor. The airline ...

Who'd want to buy an airline in this environment? The Minneapolis investment firm Castlelake, which has bought over 2% of the U.K.-headquartered budget airline easyJet and is considering a full bid.

A bidding war has broken out for EasyJet, the British low-cost airline, with the second American private-equity bid.

Aircraft belonging to low-cost airline easyJet parked at the EuroAirport, in Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, Saint-Louis, eastern France, on September 2 2025 (photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP via Getty Images).

British budget airline easyJet has agreed in principle ​to a sweetened takeover bid ​from U.S. investment firm Castlelake ...

Newly-released analysis of cabin bag prices charged by some of the top budget airlines found their lowest advertised rates were not available in the vast majority of cases. Ryanair and easyJet are ...