EasyJet

The Origin Archive Dialogues · Sep 15, 2026 · 35m

Imagine a sky choked by giants, where air travel was a luxury, a distant dream for many. In the early 1990s, the European airways hummed with the slow, expensive rhythm of an old world. But beneath the surface, tectonic plates were shifting, and a new breed of visionary was about to shatter the status quo, promising to democratize the very heavens.Step back to a Europe where the skies belonged to a privileged few. Massive national flag carriers like British Airways, Air France, and Lufthansa, often state-owned and deeply subsidized, carved up the continent with intricate hub-and-spoke…