easyJet one of Europe's most profitable airlines

CAPA - Centre for Aviation, in an article entitled 'easyJet SWOT: you must be getting things right if Stelios has gone quiet', stated (28-Nov-2014) easyJet's most recent annual results, for the financial year ended Sep-2014, confirmed its position as one of Europe's most profitable airlines. Its pre-tax profit of GBP581 million was 22% higher than last year and its operating margin of 12.8% was up 1.1 ppts from last year. Among European airlines, easyJet ranks second only to Ryanair's 16.5% margin for the same 12 month period. According to its own measure of return on capital employed, it ranks first among leading European airlines and in the first quartile of companies from all sector's in the UK's benchmark FTSE 100 stock market index. [more - CAPA Analysis]