REG - Wizz Air Holdings - June 2023 Traffic and CO2 Emission Statistics

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04/07/2023 07:00

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RNS Number : 8240E  Wizz Air Holdings PLC  04 July 2023

JUNE 2023 TRAFFIC AND CO2 EMISSION STATISTICS

WIZZ AIR CARRIED 5.3 MILLION PASSENGERS, AN INCREASE OF 23% YEAR-ON-YEAR

Ticker:  WIZZ

Geneva, 4 July 2023: Wizz Air Holdings Plc ("Wizz Air"), the fastest growing
and one of the most sustainable European airlines, today announces passenger
and CO(2) emission statistics for June 2023.

In June 2023, Wizz Air carried 5,314,584 passengers, representing a 22.5%
increase compared to June 2022, at a load factor of 92.2%.

Wizz Air continued to grow its network and improve its customer offering in
June, including:

·      Wizz Air announced addition of ten new routes to its Albanian
network. New flights from Tirana to Birmingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool (UK),
Bucharest (Romania), Sofia (Bulgaria), Prague (Czech Republic) and Krakow
(Poland) will start in the upcoming winter season. The network expansion
amounts to nearly 100 extra weekly flights scheduled for this winter;

·      Wizz Air took delivery of its latest A321neo aircraft from the
Airbus assembly plant located in Tianjin, China. This is the first aircraft
Wizz Air received from a non-European assembly plant, which also represents
the very first one ever to be delivered to a European airline customer from
Tianjin plant;

·      Wizz Air has been named the Most Sustainable Low-Cost Airline for
the third consecutive year at the World Finance Sustainability Awards 2023;

·      Wizz Air announced that its entire fleet of aircraft at London
Luton Airport will be made up of Airbus A321neo by 2025. This step is aligned
with its long-term fleet renewal strategy, including partnering with airports
in pursuit of mutual aviation carbon footprint reduction goals;

·      Wizz Air continuously operates the lowest CO(2) emissions per
passenger/km among all competitor airlines, with 52.5 grams per passenger/km
for the rolling 12 months to 30 June 2023. For the month of June, CO(2)
emissions were 51.5 grams per passenger/km (8.4% lower compared to same month
last year).

                   Month                               Rolling 12 months
                   June       June       Change**      30 June     30 June     Change

                   2023       2022                     2023        2022
 Capacity (seats)  5,761,666  5,039,277  14.3%         60,549,211  44,358,535  36.5%
 Passengers*       5,314,584  4,340,115  22.5%         54,157,915  36,299,924  49.2%
 Load Factor**     92.2%      86.1%      6.1pp         89.4%       81.8%       7.6pp

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

 

Wizz Air Monthly CO2 Emission Statistics**

                              Month                            Rolling 12 months to:
                              June 2023  June     Change*      30 June      30 June      Change

                                         2022                  2023         2022
 CO2 emissions in tonnes      476,569    395,688  20.4%        4,925,442    3,503,426    40.6%
 CO2 grams per passenger/km*  51.5       56.2     -8.4%        52.5         59.6         -11.8%

*rounded to one decimal place

**excluding cargo flights

 

ABOUT WIZZ AIR

Wizz Air, the fastest growing European ultra-low-cost airline and one of the
most sustainable, and currently operates a fleet of 184 Airbus A320 and A321
aircraft. A team of dedicated aviation professionals delivers superior service
and very low fares, making Wizz Air the preferred choice of 51.1 million
passengers in the financial year F23 ending 31 March, 2023. Wizz Air is listed
on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker WIZZ. The company was recently
named one of the world's top ten safest airlines by airlineratings.com, the
world's only safety and product rating agency, and Airline of the Year by Air
Transport World in 2020, as well as Airline of the Year by Air Transport
Awards in 2019 and 2023. Wizz Air has also been recognised as the "Most
Sustainable Low-Cost Airline" within the World Finance Sustainability Awards
2022 and the "Global Environmental Sustainability Airline Group of the Year"
by the CAPA-Centre for Aviation Awards for Excellence 2022.

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 For more information:

 Investors:  Zlatko Custovic, Wizz Air                     +36 1 777 9407

 Media:      Zsuzsa Trubek, Wizz Air                       +36 70 652 4115

             James McFarlane / Eleni Menikou, MHP Group:   +44 (0) 20 3128 8100

 

 

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