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Jun 2021
22m 58s

Johan Lundgren, EasyJet CEO: Can his bus...

Bbc World Service
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No industry has been hit harder by the global pandemic than aviation. Cross-border travel is either banned or constrained by tests and quarantines across much of the world. And, in a time full of uncertainty and insecurity, who wants to travel for either business or pleasure? Stephen Sackur speaks to Johan Lundgren, CEO of EasyJet, Europe’s second biggest budget airline. Can his business model survive the double whammy of Covid and climate change?

(Photo: Johan Lundgren in the Hardtalk studio)

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