Wizz Air May passengers stats soar

Low cost airline Wizz Air reported a 22.4% year on year rise in passengers for May as it continued to expand its network into Eastern Europe.

The carrier booked 3.47m passengers, compared with 2.83m in May 2018. The load factor rose 2 percentage points to 93.9%.

Wizz said it had opened up nine new routes, with seven to Poland and two to Ukraine as well as establishing its newest Polish base in Krakow with three A320 aircraft to be deployed in summer 2019.

The airline last week reported a record annual net profit of EUR291.6m (£266m), up 6% percent as revenue rose 19.6% to €2.3bn. In 2020 it expected group net profit to be in a range of between €320m and €350m.