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Wizz Air Holdings PLC
02 June 2023
MAY 2023 TRAFFIC AND CO2 EMISSION STATISTICS
WIZZ AIR CARRIED 5.0 MILLION PASSENGERS, AN INCREASE OF 22%
YEAR-ON-YEAR
Ticker: WIZZ
Geneva, 2 June 2023: Wizz Air Holdings Plc ("Wizz Air"), the
fastest growing and one of the most sustainable European airline s
, today announces passenger and CO(2) emission statistics for May
2023.
In May 2023, Wizz Air carried 5,026,575 passengers, representing
a 22.1% increase compared to May 2022, at a load factor of
90.2%.
Wizz Air continued to grow its network and improve its customer
offering in May, including:
-- Wizz Air announce d significant growth in the Polish market ,
adding the 11 (th) aircraft to its Warsaw base and further
expanding its route network from other Polish bases. New routes
will include: Gdansk to Copenhagen, Tenerife and Alicante ;
Katowice to Copenhagen and Alicante ; and Wroclaw , Malaga and
Krakow to Valencia ;
-- Wizz Air a nnounce d further expansion from Albania,
allocating another aircraft to its Tirana base (11(th) aircraft) .
This newest addition is enabling the launch of three unique direct
routes to Bremen , Valencia and Thessaloniki, as well as increased
frequencies on ten other routes ;
-- Wizz Air announced the launching of two new routes from
London Gatwick airport to Prague and Hurghada. It also announced an
addition of 800,000 seats to Catania, Italy, adding a fourth
aircraft to the base, which will serve seven new routes and add
frequencies to nine existing ones;
-- Wizz Air announced further expansion from North Macedonia,
allocating a sixth aircraft to the base in Skopje. Scheduled for
the upcoming autumn and winter, Wizz Air will launch two new routes
from Skopje, while increasing frequencies on nine existing
routes;
-- Wizz Air announced that it operated five flights from
Budapest Airport with a 37% blend of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation
Fuel(TM) produced from renewable waste and residue raw materials
supplied by MOL, an oil and gas company based in Hungary. This
project supports efforts to reduce CO(2) emissions and prepares the
fuel supply system at Budapest Airport ahead of EU SAF blending
mandates;
-- Wizz Air continuously operates the lowest CO(2) emissions per
passenger/km among all competitor airlines, with 52.9 grams per
passenger/km for the rolling 12 months to 31 May 2023. For the
month of May, CO(2) emissions were 52.1 grams per passenger/km
(8.9% lower compared to same month last year).
Month Rolling 12 months
---------------------- ------- ------------------------ -------
May May Change 31 May 31 May Change
2023 2022 ** 2023 2022
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Capacity (seats) 5,569,712 4,889,505 13.9% 59,826,822 41,751,423 43.3%
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Passengers* 5,026,575 4,117,271 22.1% 53,183,446 33,516,880 58.7%
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Load Factor** 90.2% 84.2% 6.0pp 88.9% 80.3% 8.6pp
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*booked passengers
**rounded to one decimal place
Wizz Air Monthly CO2 Emission Statistics**
Month Rolling 12 months
to:
------------------ -------- ---------------------- -------
May May Change* 31 May 31 May Change
2023 2022 2023 2022
-------- -------- ---------- -------
CO2 emissions
in tonnes 463,696 387,261 19.7% 4,844,561 3,292,551 47.1%
-------- -------- -------- ---------- ---------- -------
CO2 grams per
passenger/km* 52.1 57.2 -8.9% 52.9 60.7 -12.9%
-------- -------- -------- ---------- ---------- -------
*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, operates a fleet of 1 80 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 40.0 million passengers in the financial year
F20 ending 31 March, 2020 and 27.1 million passengers in the
financial year F22 ending 31 March 2022. 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 2020 Airline of the Year by ATW, the most coveted
honour an airline or individual can receive, recognizing
individuals and organizations that have distinguished themselves
through outstanding performance, innovation, and superior service.
Wizz Air is a recipient of CAPA's prestigious Global Environmental
Sustainability Airline Group of the year award, 202 2 .
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For more information:
Investors: Zlatko Custovic, Wizz Air +36 1 777 9407
Zsuzsa Trubek, Wizz Air
+36 70 652 4115
Edward Bridges / Jonathan Neilan, FTI Consulting
Media: LLP: +44 20 3727 1017
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