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		</div><p>The founder of easyJet has demanded a vote on whether to sack one of the company’s directors, in a row over a £4.5 billion aeroplane order.</p>
<p>Stelios Haji-Ioannou’s holding company easyGroup on Wednesday requisitioned a meeting of the company’s shareholders to decide whether to remove Andreas Bierwirth from the easyJet board.</p>
<p>It follows through on a threat from the businessman, who is easyJet’s biggest shareholder, to start sacking directors if the company did not take steps to cancel its order of 107 aircraft from Airbus.</p>
<p>The Luton-based carrier grounded all of its planes earlier this week as demand for flights collapsed due to the coronavirus pandemic.</p>
<p>Chief executive Johan Lundgren has indicated the airline would consider accepting Government bailout loans if needed.</p>
<p>EasyJet’s board said it is “considering the contents” of Sir Stelios’s requisition and will announce its decision in time.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, Mr Haji-Ioannou said the Airbus order, which will see £4.5 billion paid to the European plane maker over the next three years, is easyJet’s “main risk to survival”.</p>
<p>He said he is concerned easyJet did not consider the crisis to be a “force majeure” – a legal term for unforeseen circumstances that allow a business to get out of a contract.</p>
<p>Mr Haji-Ioannou said: <em>“In short, I would rather spend shareholders’ scarce money paying lawyers to defend easyJet against a potential legal action by Airbus demanding payments for dubious penalties rather than buying overpriced planes that will sit on the ground or fly their passengers at a loss.”</em></p>
<p>He has threatened to remove a non-executive every seven weeks unless his demands are met.</p>
<p>Separately, fellow budget airline Wizz Air has said the number of passengers it is carrying dropped by 36% in March, as it cut capacity by 34%. It is operating flights between China and Hungary to deliver medical equipment, the carrier said.</p>
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