Shares take off
EasyJet’s new boss has already made nearly £50,000 thanks to a surge in the budget airline’s share price.
Filings show Johan Lundgren bought 20,000 easyJet shares on December 6, five days after starting, for £14.42 each. Since then, the stock has leapt to £16.79.
The £47,000 paper profit is enough to buy Swede Lundgren more than 1,200 return easyJet flights to Stockholm.
The 50-year-old former Tui bigwig, on a £61,000-a-month salary, this week unveiled a 14% jump in easyJet sales for the final three months of 2017.