December 2019 Traffic and CO2 Emission Statistics

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Wizz Air Holdings PLC

06 January 2020

 

DECEMBER 2019 TRAFFIC AND CO2 EMISSION STATISTICS

WIZZ AIR GROWS PASSENGER NUMBERS BY 25% TO 3.3M
LOAD FACTOR INCREASES BY 0.6PPTs TO 89.4%

Ticker:  WIZZ

Geneva, 6 January 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 December 2019.

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

·      Wizz Air announced that it has reached an agreement in principle for the establishment of Wizz Air Abu Dhabi in partnership with Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company PJSC (ADDH). Operations are expected to launch in the second half of 2020, with Wizz Air Abu Dhabi gaining access to markets with a total of 5 billion customers across Europe and beyond.

·      Wizz Air added two new stations to its network: Yerevan in Armenia with two new routes to Vienna and Vilnius, and Paris Orly, with two new routes to Budapest and Warsaw.

·      Route network expansion with the announcement of 6 routes: Austria (1x), Hungary (1x), Lithuania (1x), Poland (1x), Romania (2x).

·      Base expansion in Bucharest with the addition of one new Airbus A321 aircraft in July 2020 and two new routes to Prague and Seville.

·      Wizz Air continuously operates at the lowest CO2 emissions per passenger/km amongst all competitor airlines. At 59.5 grams, CO2 emissions in grams per passenger/km for the month of December were 2.0% lower than in the same month last year.   

	Month				Rolling 12 months to:
	December 2019	December 2018	Change		31 December 2019	31 December 2018	Change
Capacity (seats)	3,711,436	2,994,546	23.9%		42,532,642	36,612,246	16.2%
Passengers*	3,317,762	2,660,104	24.7%		39,800,666	33,814,122	17.7%
Load Factor**	89.4%	88.8%	0.6ppts		93.6%	92.4%	1.2ppts

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

Additional Wizz Air Operational Statistics

	Month				Rolling 12 months to:
	November 2019	December 2018	Change		31 December 2019	31 December 2018	Change
Available Seat Kilometres (000s)	6,078,915	4,875,899	24.7%		69,444,183	58,837,817	18.0%
Revenue Passenger Kilometres (000s)	5,450,397	4,350,987	25.3%		65,172,092	54,433,284	19.7%

Wizz Air Monthly CO2 Emission Statistics

	Month				Rolling 12 months to:
	December 2019	December 2018	Change		31 December 2019	31 December 2018	Change
CO2 emissions in tonnes*	324,437	264,244	22.8%		3,734,501	3,216,193	16.1%
CO2 grams per passenger/km*	59.5	60.7	-2.0%		57.3	59.1	-3.0%

*rounded to one decimal place

ABOUT WIZZ AIR

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, offers more than 700 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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