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Easyjet PLC AGM Information 2020

Feb 6, 2020

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easyJet plc

(the "Company")

Results of 2020 Annual General Meeting

The Company is pleased to announce the voting results of its Annual General Meeting ('AGM') held earlier today at Hangar 89, London Luton Airport, Luton, LU2 9PF.

All resolutions, as set out in the Notice of Meeting, were passed with the requisite majority by means of a poll. Resolutions 1 to 18 were each passed as an Ordinary Resolution (requiring a simple majority for them to be passed) and resolutions 19 to 21 were each passed as a Special Resolution (requiring at least a 75% majority for them to be passed). The polling results for each resolution are set out below:

Resolution Votes For % Votes
Against
% Total Votes % of ISC
Voted*
Votes
Withheld**
1. To receive the Annual
Report and Accounts for
the year ended 30
September 2019
191,880,980 99.60 772,833 0.40 192,653,813 48.50% 134,312,563
2. To approve the Annual
Statement by the Chairman
of the Remuneration
Committee and the Annual
Report on Remuneration
183,893,438 94.54 10,626,149 5.46 194,519,587 48.97% 132,447,695
3. To declare a final dividend 194,516,498 99.99 27,604 0.01 194,544,102 48.98% 132,423,981
4. To re-appoint John Barton
as a Director
191,636,070 98.98 1,976,108 1.02 193,612,178 48.74% 133,343,299
5. To re-appoint Johan
Lundgren as a Director
194,288,833 99.93 138,698 0.07 194,427,531 48.95% 132,528,308
6. To re-appoint Andrew
Findlay as a Director
194,243,865 99.90 185,732 0.10 194,429,597 48.95% 132,524,580
7. To re-appoint Charles
Gurassa as a Director
193,935,057 99.75 491,008 0.25 194,426,065 48.95% 132,527,956
8. To re-appoint Dr Andreas
Bierwirth as a Director
179,008,736 94.87 9,681,849 5.13 188,690,585 47.50% 138,263,436
9. To re-appoint Moya Greene
DBE as a Director
193,942,562 99.75 486,548 0.25 194,429,110 48.95% 132,525,553
10. To re-appoint Dr
Anastassia Lauterbach as a
Director
194,335,633 99.95 91,208 0.05 194,426,841 48.95% 132,527,180
11. To re-appoint Nick Leeder
as a Director
194,329,517 99.95 89,726 0.05 194,419,243 48.95% 132,534,778
12. To re-appoint Andy Martin
as a Director
193,851,049 99.71 568,934 0.29 194,419,983 48.95% 132,534,680
13. To re-appoint Julie
Southern as a Director
192,125,105 99.66 653,419 0.34 192,778,524 48.53% 134,176,139
14. To appoint Catherine
Bradley CBE as a Director
194,334,572 99.95 87,532 0.05 194,422,104 48.95% 132,529,800
15. To re-appoint
PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP as auditors of the
Company
188,767,674 97.08 5,677,326 2.92 194,445,000 48.95% 132,506,133
16. To authorise the Audit
Committee to determine
the auditors' remuneration
191,112,950 98.25 3,399,132 1.75 194,512,082 48.97% 132,440,199
17. To authorise the Company
and its subsidiaries to make
political donations and
incur political expenditure
178,833,394 92.17 15,200,010 7.83 194,033,404 48.85% 132,924,142
18. To authorise the Directors
to allot shares
194,140,734 99.84 308,500 0.16 194,449,234 48.95% 132,501,914
19. To disapply statutory pre
emption rights (Special
Resolution)
194,088,872 99.82 355,441 0.18 194,444,313 48.95% 132,503,735
20. To authorise the Company
to purchase its own shares
(Special Resolution)
191,524,472 98.56 2,804,492 1.44 194,328,964 48.92% 132,629,175
21. To authorise the Company
to call general meetings on
not less than 14 clear days'
notice (Special Resolution)
185,033,407 95.37 8,981,578 4.63 194,014,985 48.84% 132,936,211

* Based on total issued share capital of 397,208,133 Ordinary shares

** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted towards votes cast "For" or "Against" a resolution

Votes of Independent Shareholders on the resolutions concerning the election or re-election of the independent Non-Executive Directors

Resolution Votes For % Votes
Against
% Total Votes % of ISC
voted***
Votes
Withheld**
7. To re-appoint Charles Gurassa
as a Director
193,935,057 99.75 491,008 0.25 194,426,065 73.42% 126,529
8. To re-appoint Dr Andreas
Bierwirth as a Director
179,008,736 94.87 9,681,849 5.13 188,690,585 71.26% 5,862,009
9. To re-appoint Moya Greene
DBE as a Director
193,942,562 99.75 486,548 0.25 194,429,110 73.42% 124,126
10. To re-appoint Dr Anastassia
Lauterbach as a Director
194,335,633 99.95 91,208 0.05 194,426,841 73.42% 125,753
11. To re-appoint Nick Leeder as a
Director
194,329,517 99.95 89,726 0.05 194,419,243 73.42% 133,351
12. To re-appoint Andy Martin as
a Director
193,851,049 99.71 568,934 0.29 194,419,983 73.42% 133,253
13. To re-appoint Julie Southern
as a Director
192,125,105 99.66 653,419 0.34 192,778,524 72.80% 1,774,712
14. To appoint Catherine Bradley
CBE as a Director
194,334,572 99.95 87,532 0.05 194,422,104 73.42% 128,373

** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted towards votes cast "For" or "Against" a resolution

*** Based on total issued share capital of 397,208,133 Ordinary shares but excluding (for these purposes) shares held by the controlling shareholders

1. Notes

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.2.2E, Resolutions 7-14 inclusive were approved by: (a) the shareholders of the Company; and (b) the independent shareholders of the Company.

The total voting rights of the Company on the day on which shareholders had to be on the register in order to be eligible to vote was 397,208,133.

In accordance with LR 9.6.2, copies of the resolutions passed as special business have been submitted to the FCA's National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available to view at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM.

2. Dividend

The timetable in relation to the dividend is as follows:

Ex-dividend date Thursday, 27 February 2020
Record date for entitlement to the dividend 5.00 p.m. on Friday, 28 February 2020
Payment of dividend Friday, 20 March 2020

In case of queries please contact:

Michael Barker, Investor Relations 07985 890939
Anna Knowles, Corporate Communications 07985 873313
Dorothy Burwell/Ed Simpkins, Finsbury 020 7251 3801

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