Wizz Air passenger numbers soar in December

Hungary-based budget airline Wizz Air reported a strong rise in December passenger numbers as demand continued to rebound from the Covid pandemic.

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The company on Wednesday said it carried 4,964,857 passengers, an 18.8% increase year on year. For the year as a whole numbers rose by 26.1% to 66.4 million.

December’s load factor, which measures how full an airline’s planes are, fell 2.4 percentage points to 82.1% year on year.

Reporting by Frank Prenesti for Sharecast.com