JANUARY 2020 TRAFFIC AND CO2 EMISSION STATISTICS

RNS Number : 8160B

Wizz Air Holdings PLC

04 February 2020

 

JANUARY 2020 TRAFFIC AND CO2 EMISSION STATISTICS

WIZZ AIR GROWS PASSENGER NUMBERS BY 23% TO 3.2M
LOAD FACTOR INCREASES BY 2PPTs TO 90%

Ticker:  WIZZ

Geneva, 4 February 2020: Wizz Air Holdings Plc ("Wizz Air"), the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announces passenger and CO2 emission statistics for January 2020.

In January 2020, Wizz Air continued to grow its network and improve its customer offering as follows:

·      Wizz Air announced further expansion to Russia by launching four new routes from Pulkovo Airport, Saint Petersburg starting in summer 2020.

·      Route network expansion with the announcement of 18 routes: Albania (5x) Austria (5x), Bulgaria (3x), Hungary (1x), Lithuania (1x), Romania (1x), Slovakia (1x), United Kingdom (1x).

·      Base expansion with an additional Airbus A321 aircraft to its Vienna base from July 2020, taking the base to nine aircraft with five new routes and additional frequencies on existing routes.

·      Wizz Air continuously operates at the lowest CO2 emissions per passenger/km amongst all competitor airlines. At 58.9 grams, CO2 emissions in grams per passenger/km for the month of January were 0.9% lower than in the same month last year.   

	Month				Rolling 12 months to:
	January 2020	January 2019	Change		31 January 2020	31 January 2019	Change
Capacity (seats)	3,492,244	2,915,508	19.8%		43,109,378	36,864,096	16.9%
Passengers*	3,151,622	2,569,229	22.7%		40,383,170	34,047,145	18.6%
Load Factor**	90.2%	88.1%	2.1ppts		93.7%	92.4%	1.3ppts

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

Wizz Air Monthly CO2 Emission Statistics

	Month				Rolling 12 months to:
	January 2020	January 2019	Change		31 January 2020	31 January 2019	Change
CO2 emissions in tonnes*	306,136	252,391	21.3%		3,788,246	3,237,818	17.0%
CO2 grams per passenger/km*	58.9	59.4	-0.9%		57.3	58.9	-2.8%

*rounded to one decimal place

 

Additional Wizz Air Operational Statistics

	Month				Rolling 12 months to:
	January 2020	January 2019	Change		31 January 2020	31 January 2019	Change
Available Seat Kilometres (000s)	5,698,517	4,768,336	19.5%		70,374,364	59,385,430	18.5%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres (000s)	5,201,330	4,249,110	22.4%		66,124,312	54,935,352	20.4%

ABOUT WIZZ AIR

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, offers more than 710 routes from 25 bases, connecting 154 destinations across 45 countries. A team of more than 5,000 aviation professionals delivers superior service and very low fares making Wizz Air the preferred choice of 40 million passengers in the past 12 months. WIZZ operates an all-Airbus fleet of 120 aircraft. Its A320s are equipped with 180 seats, its A321s with 230 seats and its A321neo aircraft with 239 seats. According to the latest data of the Swiss airline intelligence provider CH-Aviation, Wizz Air has one of the youngest airline fleets in the world. Wizz Air is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker WIZZ and is included in the FTSE 250 and FTSE All-Share Indices. Wizz Air is registered under the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Operational Safety Audit (IOSA), the global benchmark in airline safety recognition. The company was recently named one of the world's top ten safest airlines by airlineratings.com, the world's only safety and product rating agency, and 2019 - Airline of the Year by Air Transport Awards the only international awards that recognizes the year's most outstanding performers in the aerospace industry in the most important categories.

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For more information:
Investors:	Evelin Horvath, Wizz Air	[phone]
Media:	Tamara Vallois, Wizz Air:	[phone]
	Edward Bridges / Jonathan Neilan, FTI Consulting LLP:	[phone]

 

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