March Passenger Statistics

RNS Number : 1276Q

easyJet PLC

06 April 2009

 



6 April 2009

                  EASYJET PASSENGER STATISTICS FOR MARCH 2009

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Month ending                        March 2009        March 2008          Change

Passengers1                              3,494,312           3,730,134               (6.3)%

Load Factor2                                     84.7%                 87.4%                     (2.8)pp

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Rolling 12 months ending     March 2009         March 2008          Change

Passengers1                             44,203,831           39,652,382             11.5%

Load Factor2                           84.9%                  83.6%                     1.3pp                

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The Load factor for March was down 2.8 percentage points versus last year due to the movement of Easter from March in 2008 to April in 2009. 

For the six months to 31 March 2009 in line with our expectations the load factor increased by 1.7 percentage points and total passenger numbers grew by 2.9 %.

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1.Represents the number of earned seats flown. Earned seats include seats that are flown whether or not the passenger turns up because easyJet is a no-refund airline, and once a flight has departed a no-show customer is generally not entitled to change flights or seek a refund. Earned seats also include seats provided for promotional purposes and to staff for business travel. 

2. Represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of seats available for passengers. No weighting of the load factor is carried out to recognise the effect of varying flight (or 'stage') lengths. 

 

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