Wizz Air October passenger numbers take off

East-Europe focused low-cost airline Wizz Air reported a jump in passenger numbers during October as the travel sector rebounded from Covid lockdowns.

Passenger numbers in October more than doubled to 2.97m up from 1.14m a year ago. Load factor rose 13.6 percentage points to 79.5%.

On a rolling 12-month basis, passenger numbers were down 17.5% to 18m from 21.8m, with the load factor 5.9 points lower to 73.9%.