Wizz Air passenger numbers fly higher in June

Eastern Europe’s largest low-cost airline, Wizz Air, reported further growth in passenger numbers for June on Tuesday.

The FTSE 250 firm said its capacity increased by 15.3% over last June to 2.19 million seats, with the number of seats improving 18.7% on a rolling 12 month basis.

A total of 2.01 million passengers flew during June - 16.2% more than June 2015 - with 20.86 million flying with Wizz during the year, a 20.5% improvement.

The airline’s load factor improved 0.8 percentage points during the month to 91.7%, and by 1.3 percentage points on a rolling 12 month basis to 88.4%.

During the month, the Wizz fleet increased to 69 aircraft with the delivery of a brand new A321ceo from Airbus.

It also reached a major milestone of 25 million passengers carried in Romania, and launched eight new routes to and from Hungary, Romania, Poland and Serbia.