Wizz Air load factors improve as it removes cabin bag charges
Central and Eastern Europe-focussed low cost carrier Wizz Air saw passenger number rise 23.7% year-on-year in July to 2,827,331, it said on Wednesday, as capacity improved 21.3% to 2,465,720 seats during the month.
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The FTSE 250 airline’s load factor during the month was 94.5%, up 1.8 percentage points on July 2016.
On a rolling 12-month basis, Wizz Air’s capacity was 28,378,524 seats in the year to 31 July, up 18.6% on last year, while passenger numbers grew 21.7% to 25,758,964.
The company’s rolling 12-month load factor rose 2.3 percentage points to 90.8% as at 31 July.
“In July 2017, Wizz Air continued to expand its network, operations and customer offering,” the board said in its statement, noting that it announced three new routes during the month.
One of those was to Poland and two were to Ukraine, which included the airline’s 142nd airport and 43rd country in its network, flying from Tallinn in Estonia.
It also expanded its bases, deploying a fourth Airbus A320ceo aircraft to Skopje in Macedonia, while it also opened a second Bulgarian base in Varna.
It took delivery of a brand new Airbus A321ceo in July, taking its fleet to 84 aircraft, and to the celebration of many of its passengers, it removed its controversial paid-for cabin bag policy.