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December 2016 Traffic Statistics

4 Jan 2017 07:00

RNS Number : 2448T
Wizz Air Holdings PLC
04 January 2017
 

DECEMBER 2016 TRAFFIC STATISTICS:

 

WIZZ AIR GROWS PASSENGER NUMBERS BY 23%,

LOAD FACTOR INCREASE 2.1 PPTS TO 87%

 

Ticker: WIZZ

 

Geneva, 4 January 2017: Wizz Air Holdings Plc ("Wizz Air"), the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announces passenger statistics for December 2016.

 

In December 2016, Wizz Air continued to expand its network, strengthen its customer offering and operations with the following announcements:

 

· Wizz Air was awarded a four year concession by the Hungarian government to connect Hungary to Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and Bosnia & Hercegovina. Flights will start operating in April 2017.

· Varna in Bulgaria will become Wizz Air's 27th base with a brand new Airbus A320 aircraft being deployed in July 2017.

· Base expansion continued with a 6th aircraft to Cluj-Napoca in March 2017 and a 2nd aircraft to Kyiv in August 2017.

· Network further expanded with nineteen new routes announced in December to/from Hungary (x6), Bulgaria (x5), Romania (x4), Ukraine (2x), Croatia (x1), and Lithuania (x1) including the new destinations of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tirana in Albania, Prishtina in Kosovo, and Osijek in Croatia.

· Seven new routes commenced operation to/from Bulgaria (x2), Romania (x2), Poland (x1), Ukraine (x1) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (x1).

Month

Rolling 12 months to:

December 2016

December 2015

Change

31 December 2016

31 December 2015

Change

Capacity (seats)

2,151,260

1,788,860

+20.3%

25,567,420

21,810,920

+17.2%

Passengers*

1,877,119

1,522,745

+23.3%

22,782,948

19,179,385

+18.8%

Load Factor**

87.3%

85.1%

+2.1ppts

89.1%

87.9%

+1.2ppts

 

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

 

 

ABOUT WIZZ AIR

Wizz Air is the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, operates a fleet of 74 Airbus A320 and Airbus A321 aircraft, and offers more than 480 routes from 27 bases, connecting 134 destinations across 40 countries. At Wizz Air, a team of approximately 3,000 aviation professionals delivers superior service and very low ticket prices making Wizz Air the preferred choice of 20 million passengers in the financial year ended 31 March 2016. Wizz Air is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker WIZZ and is included in the FTSE 250 and FTSE All-Share Indices. Wizz Air is registered under the International Air Transport Association (IATA), Operational Safety Audit (IOSA), the global benchmark in airline safety recognition. The company was recently named 2016 Value Airline of the Year by the editors of Air Transport World, one of the leading airline trade magazines, as well as 2016 Low Cost Airline of the Year by the Center for Aviation (CAPA), a leading provider of independent aviation market intelligence.

 

 

Additional Wizz Air Operational Statistics

 

Month

Rolling 12 months to:

December 2016

December2015

Change

31 December 2016

31 December2015

Change

Available Seat Kilometres (000s)

3,414,059

2,742,566

+24.5%

40,136,464

33,445,907

+20.0%

Revenue Passenger Kilometres (000s)

2,985,337

2,348,754

+27.1%

35,829,836

29,448,311

+21.7%

 

 

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For more information:

Investors:

Iain Wetherall, Wizz Air:

+41 22 555 9873

Balint Veres, Wizz Air:

+36 1 777 9349

Media:

Tamara Vallois, Wizz Air:

+36 1 777 9324

Edward Bridges / Jonathan Neilan, FTI Consulting LLP:

+44 20 3727 1017

 

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
 
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