The Easyjet billionaire Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is pursuing two Latin American airlines, accusing them of brand theft for using the word “easy”.
Easygroup secured an order in the High Court last month calling on the Honduran airline Easy Sky and its Mexican parent company Global Air to desist from using the Easy Sky brand on the side of its aircraft or from using the brand as a domain name on the internet or social media.
The order calls for the company to “change . . . to a name that does not commence with the word ‘easy’.”
Easy Sky, which has no links with Easyjet or Easygroup, was in the news three months ago when a Boeing 737 leased by its parent company crashed shortly