While the two airlines share a common business idea, EasyJet's strategy differs from Ryanair's in a number of areas. EasyJet flies mainly to primary airports in the cities that it serves, while Ryanair often chooses secondary airports to further reduce costs. For example, EasyJet flies to Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Paris Orly, the primary airports in Paris, while Ryanair flies to the smaller Beauvais-Tillé Airport, a 75 minute bus journey from Paris. EasyJet also focuses on attracting business passengers by offering convenient services such as the option to transfer on to an earlier flight without charge.

In June 2007, EasyJet announced plans for construction of its own airliner, dubbed EcoJet. Featuring propfan engines, the EcoJet would feature an increase in fuel efficiency. It would be constructed with extensive use of carbon fiber composite material. The date for the first flight was given to be in 2015.

Since then, no news on the advances of the EcoJet project have been released. Therefore, it is unclear whether EasyJet still pursues its construction, or whether the original purpose of project was to put aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus under pressure to construct an airliner that serves the need of EasyJet.[citation needed]

EasyJet is offering the possibility to carbon offset the CO2 to their customers' trips for a surcharge via a calculator which calculates a passenger's carbon footprint.

EasyJet's three largest bases in order are London-Gatwick, Milan Malpensa and London-Luton. London-Gatwick has over forty EasyJet aircraft based there, they operate roughly eighty routes from the base.

EasyJet prefers to fly to major/primary airports, usually very close to the city they serve. For example EasyJet flies to the primary airports of Paris, which are Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport, located 25 km or 16 miles away from the city, and Paris-Orly, located 13 km or 8 miles from Paris. EasyJet often have large bases at primary airports and they will avoid seconday airports where possible. EasyJet does still serve a number of minor/secondary airports including Doncaster-Sheffield and Rome-Ciampino.

EasyJet has a large number of European 'bases'. Despite this, they have a very large presence in Britain, where the airline is based.

The EasyJet fleet consists of the following aircraft (at June 2010):

EasyJet is the largest operator of the Airbus A319.