LOAD FACTOR INCREASES 2.4 PPTS TO 95.4%
Wizz Air Holdings Plc (“Wizz Air”) announces passenger statistics for August 2017.
In August 2017, Wizz Air continued to expand its network, operations and customer offering with the following announcements:
- Route network expansion with seventeen new routes announced to/from Romania (7x), Poland (5x), Hungary (2x), Czech Republic (1x), Lithuania (1x), and Latvia (1x).
- Second based Airbus A320ceo aircraft joins the Kyiv fleet in Ukraine.
- The introduction of a new ancillary product helping customers locking-in Wizz Air’s low fares for 48 hours and complete their purchase later.
- Shareholder approval to purchase 10 additional brand new Airbus A321ceo aircraft from Airbus to be delivered during 2018 – 2019.
| Month | Rolling 12 months to: | |||||||
| August 2017 | August 2016 | Change | 31 August 2017 | 31 August 2016 | Change | |||
| Capacity (seats) | 3,028,438 | 2,496,410 | +21.3% | 28,910,552 | 24,292,470 | +19.0% | ||
| Passengers* | 2,887,770 | 2,320,990 | +24.4% | 26,325,744 | 21,505,021 | +22.4% | ||
| Load Factor** | 95.4% | 93.0% | +2.4ppts | 91.1% | 88.5% | +2.5ppts | ||
*booked passengers
**rounded to one decimal place
04 September 2017