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Wizz Air grows passenger numbers by 22.4% in May

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LOAD FACTOR INCREASES 2.0 PPTS TO 93.9%

Wizz Air Holdings Plc (“Wizz Air”) announces passenger statistics for May 2019.

In May 2019, Wizz Air continued to grow its network and improve its customer offering as follows:

  • Route network expansion with the start of 9 new routes from/to: Poland (7x) and Ukraine (2x).
  • Opening of newest Polish base in Krakow with three based A320 family aircraft deployed in May, August and September in summer 2019.
  • Wizz Air was named 2019 Airline of the Year by Air Transport Awards, the only international prizes that award all the main categories of the air transport industry.
  • Celebration of 15 years of operation and a remarkable milestone of 200 million carried passengers.
MonthRolling 12 months to:
MayMayChange31 May31 MayChange
2019201820192018
Capacity (seats)3,697,1703,086,62619.8%38,411,49633,359,77615.1%
Passengers*3,470,8892,836,38022.4%35,725,34930,513,70017.1%
Load Factor**93.9%91.9%2.0ppts93.0%91.5%1.5ppts

*booked passengers**rounded to one decimal place

Additional Wizz Air Operational Statistics

MonthRolling 12 months to:
May 2019May 2018Change31 May 201931 May 2018Change
Available SeatKilometres (000s)6,003,3114,959,26921.1%62,324,68653,058,28517.5%
Revenue PassengerKilometres (000s)5,656,3974,550,93324.3%58,084,545
Jun 4, 2019, 08:00

This post was published on 5 June 2019 10:42

André Orban

M. Sc. Engineering

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