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Agreed but it seems to be a feature of the industry. Same at easyjet and Jet2. The caution is their legal obligation only

At the current rate the buybacks end on 3rd or 6th October. Yesterday was the biggest ever. There's £48.1m left in the buyback pot.

Normally buybacks have volitilty clauses which means they may not be buying today. At Jet2 on the day they dropped a few quid their were no buybacks.

Like Jet2 the news here is mainly positive but not as positive as they hoped. I bought in and will stick around for the ride

Yes if there no top up of the buybacks then they will stop. If they revert back to 80k a day obviously that will be in a few months. At the current pace it will be sooner.

The buybacks have driven the share price. I suspect that they are running at breakneck speed for a reason because it's a choice. The business is cash rich and could extend the situation further. They could have also withdrawn from a few weeks and probably be buying at much lower levels. They have chosen to do neither.

I suspect that people have sold like yourself in anticipation of the end which is still a while away.

I don't know what's in their head but it's clear that they are mopping up most of the sells.

It's important to understand that only a certain percentage of shares are free-floating. Most are held tightly and aren't going to be released until previous highs are achieved. I guess we seek that point.

I don't see it as a simple issue like you suggest.

I guess this has been the problem here. Jet2 increases it's winter schedule by 9% because they feel that's the best fit with the current market, 9% that's massive over winter. Yet somehow that was a warning over winter demand....... Unbelievable.

Shares in TUI rise around 2% after the travel

group said it saw a positive start to the winter 2025/26 season ** The upbeat winter outlook contrasts positively with Jet2's warning earlier this month of softer demand this winter, analysts say

* "Given the competitor commentary over demand softening into the winter from peers like Jet2, TUI pointing to continued robust demand through the summer and into next winter is being taken positively," James Goodall from Redburn Atlantic notes ** Europe's largest tour operator also confirmed its annual guidance after hiking guidance for profit in August

I am obviously missing something below. Jet2 increase their winter schedule by just a cautious 9% over last year and they consider that somehow negative.

Shares in TUI rise around 2% after the travel

group said it saw a positive start to the winter 2025/26 season ** The upbeat winter outlook contrasts positively with Jet2's warning earlier this month of softer demand this winter, analysts say

* "Given the competitor commentary over demand softening into the winter from peers like Jet2, TUI pointing to continued robust demand through the summer and into next winter is being taken positively," James Goodall from Redburn Atlantic notes ** Europe's largest tour operator also confirmed its annual guidance after hiking guidance for profit in August

More planes with similar numbers means longer journeys and more income from more efficient aircraft.

We can see many of the new routes are longer. Some of the shorter routes are no longer possible by law.

The new routes like Egypt are going to places with dominant hotel markets because upselling the package is easy.

Passenger numbers aren't trimming, several airports on record numbers. Here in Spain 6 airports have expansion plans planned or under way.

Easyjet will add bums on seats and percentages on packages. The airline isn't where the main growth potential is.

Stumpy we haven't seen any evidence of performance related value. Great figures hasn't produced a great share price. The money is certainly transient. Many more trading now and algorithms control the price

In jet 2 today there were 28 trades with one second all sells 100 to 500 shares simultaneously. All A trades, all on the same algorithm no doubt. It makes it difficult for the share price to increase especially on the free to

trade platforms.

I suspect it's more to do with the investment profile. There seems to be higher volumes, more shares turnover. I think that the mentality has changed which creates rapid volitilty. The instantaneous nature of access now means that it's more like gambling than investing for many. The FTSE is high although range bound but the money is extremely transient. Largely the same money in multiple places for multiple occasions.

I don't think that it's a mentality that rewards good companies, with a good story or progress or recovery.

It's more a market that moves in a pack following influence.

Lots of buying. Probably the buybacks mopping up everything lose.

I suspect the problem is a lack of money in the LSE. I suspect that's the main driver for share buybacks to support the share price whilst money is taken off the table.

I don't think it's the business that's the issue as clearly they are in a growth environment.

Maybe. No buybacks since 16th September. £57m left. I guess they are letting it settle a bit after massive spending in a crazy few days.

I don't see ticket prices going anywhere. I think ryanair will have to change their mindset over pricing. It's a factor but not the main factor.

I have a group of 48 arrived last night for 5 days on a golf package. They are paying £2200 each for the trip, and they care if the flight is £20 more

As Spain’s industry expands, the UK remains its biggest market. Through the first seven months of 2025, nearly 6 million British tourists visited Spain, an increase of 4.6 per cent from the same period in 2024.

The current share price is absolute nonsense.

Savage. Imagine if you ever had a positive thought.

Record number of Brits flew UK to Málaga this year. Easyjet 4 flights a day from UK hubs like Luton. All full.

Easyjet provide great value and are preferred by many over Ryanair. There will be winners and losers

Because they are announce at 7am the following morning by rns the previous days purchases. In April they authorised up to £250m worth of buybacks.

With regards to the 2nd tranche of buybacks they have £57 748 666 left to spend. Assuming the average spend it will be in place until the start of December.

The next update is in November and I would expect the buyback to be extended at some point.

They have removed 12 292 767 shares from the market.

The last 2 days we haven't had an announcement so it appears that they have left the market to settle for now.

I am surprised to see the number of Brits remaining so strong because it feels like we had less this year. Málaga airport has certainly been busy, or hotels demographics shows more Belgium and Scandinavian than last year, Brits slightly down. The airport figures for August shows it still very strong for Brits.

In terms of international traffic, the markets with the greatest demand in absolute terms were, once again, the United Kingdom (698,456), followed by Germany (213,215), France (168,392), The Netherlands (159,961), Italy (140,884), Belgium (101,696), Poland (86,584) and Morocco (83,404).

Another day of no buybacks yesterday. We had several days of high volume buybacks then 2 days of nothing. I wonder if they have a weekly budget. Seems primetime to buy currently.