Wizz Air June passenger numbers soar

Low-cost carrier Wizz Air almost trebled passenger numbers last month as more people resumed travelling as Covid restrictions eased.

The company on Monday said it carried 4,340,115 passengers, a 179% increase year on year, at a load factor of 86.1%, up 22.1 percentage points.

Wizz also announced it will be returning to a systemic jet fuel hedge policy “given the sustained and ongoing volatility in commodity prices”.

Wizz Air has decided to reinstate a hedging policy and will be aligning it to those of its peers.

Reporting by Frank Prenesti at Sharecast.com