EasyJet Plc’s head of operations, Rob Bishton, has quit to join FastJet, the African budget carrier founded by Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the Sunday Times reported, without saying how it got the information.

Andrew McConnell, a spokesman for EasyJet said by phone that Bishton had quit last week.

-- With assistance Sofia Horta e Costa in London. Editor: Keith Campbell

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