More than 97% of easyJet shareholders have voted in favour of the airline's £5.7 billion takeover by US investment group Apollo.
The Luton-based carrier said 97.07% of investors backed the deal at a meeting on Wednesday, while 2.93% voted against.
The airline said the takeover is set to complete by the end of March next year.
The deal will end more than 26 years on the London stock market and put easyJet into US ownership.
Apollo, which also owns firms such as Wagamama-owner The Restaurant Group, agreed the takeover with easyJet's board in August at 715p a share.
The US firm won the deal after a takeover tussle with US investment firm Castlelake.
Castlelake had made a previous proposal of £5.5 billion, or 690p a share, to buy easyJet, but walked away from the bidding war in August.
Of the deal, easyJet's chief executive Kenton Jarvis said it is now “over to the regulators” and that his company is “still anticipating the whole transaction closing in Q1 2027”.
Speaking at the Airlines 2026 event in Westminster on Wednesday, Mr Jarvis added: “It's a very good thing for the passengers – that we've obviously spoken to Apollo and it's clear that they support the strategy that we have and see great opportunities to accelerate it and when we think about our strategy and our purpose of making low-cost travel easy, affordable, and accessible for as many people as possible, then that will remain the purpose of easyJet, and we will look to provide the products and the services that our customers value.
“We’re very excited about it. We think it’s good for the future of the company.”
Asked whether the deal constitutes an “injection of cash into the airline that will transform the passenger experience”, Mr Jarvis said: “We have a lot of things that we're working on for the strategy and a lot of things that are coming along.
“We are at the start of our journey of modernising the fleet so we have a very strong and flexible order book with Airbus, and we'll be bringing in A320 and A321neo aircraft and they'll replace our older, smaller, less fuel-efficient aircraft in the fleet, like the 80 A319s that we have, and that gives great benefits in terms of not only the environment and the carbon footprint, but also the cost of operating those aircraft and then that will give good value to the customer.
“We will continue to invest and grow our holidays company.”
Mr Jarvis added that easyJet will launch a loyalty programme next year.
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, who founded easyJet in 1995 to offer a low-cost alternative to British Airways, and his family own just over 15% of the business.
They have given the takeover their support.
The airline has since expanded to be one of the largest networks across Europe.
It listed on the London Stock Exchange on November 22, 2000.
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