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Wizz Air grows passenger numbers by 24% in August 2017

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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.
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Change
Capacity (seats)3,028,4382,496,410+21.3%28,910,55224,292,470+19.0%
Passengers*2,887,7702,320,990+24.4%26,325,74421,505,021+22.4%
Load Factor**95.4%93.0%+2.4ppts91.1%88.5%+2.5ppts

 

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

04 September 2017

This post was published on 5 September 2017 11:30

André Orban

M. Sc. Engineering

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