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Wizz Air releases January 2018 traffic statistics: 24% more passengers

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WIZZ AIR GROWS PASSENGER NUMBERS BY 24%
MAJOR EXPANSION IN VIENNA

Wizz Air Holdings Plc (“Wizz Air”) announced passenger statistics for January 2018.

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

  • Vienna to become the WIZZ network’s 145 airport and Austria it’s 44 country with a major base announcement, placing three brand new Airbus A320 family aircraft and opening 17 new routes to 15 countries from June 2018.
  • Route network expansion with 18 new routes announced to/from Austria (17x) and Poland (1x).
MonthRolling 12 months to:
January

2018

January

2017

Change31 January

2018

31 January

2017

Change
Capacity (seats)2,663,6582,133,520+24.8%31,462,35625,877,340+21.6%
Passengers*2,336,2061,877,762+24.4%28,729,60323,137,809+ 24.2%
Load Factor**87.7%88.0%-0.3ppts91.3%89.4%+1.9ppts

 

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

 

Additional Wizz Air Operational Statistics

 

MonthRolling 12 months to:
January

2018

January

2017

Change31 January

2018

31 January

2017

Change
Available Seat Kilometres (000s)4,220,7233,403,284+24.0%50,008,53740,718,729+22.8%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres (000s)3,747,0423,018,009+24.2%45,792,70336,471,496+25.6%

 

Feb 5, 2018, 07:00

This post was published on 6 February 2018 17:54

André Orban

M. Sc. Engineering

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