{"id":214364,"date":"2024-01-30T11:31:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T09:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/2024\/01\/sir-stelios-haji-ioannou-celebrates-30-easy-years\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T11:36:20","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T09:36:20","slug":"sir-stelios-haji-ioannou-celebrates-30-easy-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2024\/01\/sir-stelios-haji-ioannou-celebrates-30-easy-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou celebrates 30 ‘easy’ years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A superb video retraces the history of the group, which was created by the Monegasque resident when he was just 27 years old.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1994, the young man of Cypriot origin could not have imagined that, three decades later, he would have revolutionised the air transport sector and, more generally, low-cost tourism. And yet… After travelling to the US to visit a Boeing factory, flying on a low-cost airline and staying in a budget hotel for the first time, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou had an idea: to create a name that could apply to an airline as well as a hotel…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using a paper napkin in a bar as his ‘drawing board’, the young entrepreneur came up with several names, several keywords, before hitting on: “easy.”<\/i> And so easyJet was born in 1995, followed by easyGroup in 1998. And the brands kept coming: easyHotel, easyCar, easyBus, easyCleaning, easyLife, easyStorage… The concept worked so well that Sir Stelios set up his own Foundation, whose activities are regularly funded from the Group’s brand royalties. A foundation that encourages young entrepreneurs to pursue their ideas<\/a>, as he himself had done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His beginnings, his family, his Foundation.. Sir Stelios opens up in a major interview<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Give back to society”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In honour of the group’s exceptional journey, the easyHistory website has published a video retracing the major milestones along the way: from the first orange and white aircraft, to the first interviews, as well as the billionaire being knighted by the late Queen Elizabeth II in 2006… Today, over a hundred brands bear the easy name and are part of the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I consider myself fortunate to have had the opportunity to create this recurring income stream from the easy family of brands which I use every year to give back to society,” <\/i>said Sir Stelios Haji-Iannou. Looking to the future, he added: “Here is to the next 30 years of the easy family and to a lot more good work done by my foundation.”<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, making it hard to use “easy”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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