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Wizz Air grows passenger numbers by 23% in July

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LOAD FACTOR INCREASES 0.8 PPTS TO 95.4%

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

In July 2018, Wizz Air continued to expand its network, operations and customer offering with the following announcements:

  • Route network expansion with twelve new routes announced to/from Moldova (5x), Romania (4x), the UK (2x) and Austria (1x).
  • Delivery of two brand new Airbus A320 family aircraft, taking the fleet to 104 aircraft.
  • Wizz Air celebrated the inauguration of its newest hangar in Sofia, the company’s 4th dedicated maintenance centre in Europe.
MonthRolling 12 months to:
July

2018

July

2017

Change31 July

2018

31 July

2017

Change
Capacity (seats)3,644,5562,991,504+21.8%34,564,52028,378,524+21.8%
Passengers*3,475,4972,827,331+22.9%31,703,43425,758,964+23.1%
Load Factor**95.4%94.5%+0.8ppts91.7%90.8%+1.0ppts

 

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

Additional Wizz Air Operational Statistics

MonthRolling 12 months to:
July

2018

July

2017

Change31 July

2018

31 July

2017

Change
Available Seat Kilometres (000s)5,855,0264,755,433+23.1%55,117,24845,033,492+22.4%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres (000s)5,574,9814,486,125+24.3%50,672,86640,946,550+23.8%

 

Aug 6, 2018, 07:00

This post was published on 7 August 2018 21:19

André Orban

M. Sc. Engineering

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André Orban

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