easyJet and Airbus have celebrated their successful partnership at a ceremony in Hamburg to mark the delivery the airline’s 250th Airbus A320 family aircraft. Carolyn McCall, easyJet CEO, Jean-Paul Ebanga, CFM International President and CEO, Didier Evrard, Airbus EVP and Head of Programmes, and Christopher Buckley, Airbus EVP Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific were present at the event.

To celebrate the 250th delivery, the airline unveiled its newest A320 with a unique livery featuring 250 miniature aircraft. As with other recent deliveries to the airline, the A320 is equipped with the latest technology and fuel-saving Sharklets.

McCall commented: “Taking delivery of our 250th Airbus helps us to continue to make travel easy and affordable. This milestone symbolizes the long term and successful partnership between Airbus and easyJet. We are proud to count Airbus and CFM as such reliable partners.”

easyJet is one of Europe’s airlines and flies 234 aircraft on more than 750 routes to over 130 airports across 33 countries. Since easyJet took delivery of its first Airbus aircraft (an A319) in September 2003, Airbus has delivered an aircraft on average every 16 days since the first delivery.

The airline has currently 158 aircraft on order, and is Airbus’ third biggest airline customer in terms of total aircraft orders. It flies a fleet of 85 A320s (180 seats) and 149 A319s (156 seats).

“It is hugely satisfying to witness easyJet’s growth and market success - and that they have achieved all of this with Airbus as their major partner”, said Evrard. “easyJet’s investment in A320 Family aircraft, as well as their order for 100 A320neos, supports our A320 Family, and demonstrates easyJet’s commitment to operating modern, productive and comfortable aircraft.”

The A320 family today has over 11,550 aircraft ordered, and almost 6,500 aircraft delivered to over 315 customers and operators worldwide.