Wizz Air grows passenger numbers by 18.3% in December, 19.6% in 2018

Wizz Air Holdings Plc (“Wizz Air”) announces passenger statistics for December 2018.

In December 2018, Wizz Air continued to grow its network, enhance its operations and improve its customer offering with the following announcements:

• Route network expansion with 14 new routes announced to/from UK (6x), Bulgaria (6x), Poland (1x) and Romania (1x).
• Wizz Air UK company expansion with two additional aircraft to be deployed from summer 2019, taking the London Luton based fleet to 11 aircraft.
• Base expansion in Bulgaria with a second based aircraft to be deployed in Varna from summer 2019.
• Fleet expansion with the delivery of an additional brand new Airbus A321, taking Wizz Air’s current fleet to 106 aircraft.

 

	Month				Rolling 12 months to:
	December 2018	December 2017	Change		31 December 2018	31 December 2017	Change
Capacity (seats)	2,994,546	2,569,600	+16.5%		36,612,246	30,932,218	+18.4%
Passengers*	2,660,104	2,247,891	+18.3%		33,814,122	28,271,159	+19.6%
Load Factor**	88.8%	87.5%	+1.3ppts		92.4%	91.4%	+1.0ppts

 

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

Additional Wizz Air Operational Statistics

	Month				Rolling 12 months to:
	December 2018	December 2017	Change		31 December 2018	31 December 2017	Change
Available Seat Kilometres (000s)	4,875,899	4,067,719	+19.9%		58,837,817	49,191,098	+19.6%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres (000s)	4,350,987	3,574,059	+21.7%		54,433,284	45,063,670	+20.8%

 

Jan 3, 2019, 08:00