Description:28% is today's daily digit in Europe - the rise in full-year profit at easyJet. Europe's second largest budget airline has doubled its dividend as a result. A surge in late summer demand helped the UK carrier make a pretax profit of more than half a billion dollars in just nine months. EasyJet is bucking the trend Many European airlines are struggling with higher fuel costs, weak consumer confidence and the euro zone crisis On Monday Scandinavian airline SAS came close to banktruptcy.(1:03)