JANUARY 2024 TRAFFIC AND CO2 EMISSION STATISTICS

Wizz Air Holdings PLC
02 February 2024
 

JANUARY 2024 TRAFFIC AND

CO2 EMISSION STATISTICS

WIZZ AIR CARRIED 4.7 MILLION PASSENGERS,

AN INCREASE OF 14% YEAR-ON-YEAR

Ticker:  WIZZ

Geneva, 2 February 2024: Wizz Air Holdings Plc ("Wizz Air"), the fastest growing and one of the most sustainable European airlines, today announces passenger and CO2 emission statistics for January 2024.

In January 2024, Wizz Air carried 4,740,815 passengers, representing a 14.2% increase year-on-year, at a load factor of 82.0% (primarily attributable to an increase in one-directional VFR traffic and the reallocation of capacity in response to evolving geopolitical events). Wizz Air is actively implementing measures to optimize our network and adapt to these dynamic conditions, with the aim of enhancing efficiency and supporting a recovery in load factors going forward.

The airline continued to grow its network and improve its customer offering in January. During the month:

·      Wizz Air reinstated flights between Aqaba (Jordan) and Abu Dhabi, starting from 4th February.

·      Wizz Air announced it will restart operations into Tel Aviv, with routes from Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest, Krakow, London and Rome opening from the beginning of March.

·      The UK's Civil Aviation Authority confirmed Wizz Air is fully compliant with commitments made to customers.

·      Wizz Air continues to consistently report the lowest CO2 emissions per passenger/km among competitor airlines, with 51.8 grams per passenger/km for the rolling 12 months to 31 January 2024. For the month of January, CO2 emissions were 54.9 grams per passenger/km (7.2% higher than the same month last year).


Month



Rolling 12 months

 


January

2024

January

2023

Change**

 

31 January

2024

31 January

2023

Change

Capacity (seats)

5,783,426

4,822,972

19.9%


67,370,107

54,483,223

23.7%

Passengers*

4,740,815

4,149,850

14.2%


60,904,125

47,415,081

28.4%

Load Factor**

82.0%

86.0%

-4.1pp


90.4%

87.0%

3.4pp

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

 

Wizz Air Monthly CO2 Emission Statistics*


Month



Rolling 12 months

 


January

2024

January

2023

Change**

 

31 January

2024

31 January

2023

Change

CO2 emissions in tonnes

475,294

382,749

24.2%


5,593,552

4,346,116

28.7%

CO2 grams per passenger/km**

54.9

51.2

7.2%


51.8

54.6

-5.2%

* excluding cargo flights

**rounded to one decimal place

 

 

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ABOUT WIZZ AIR

Wizz Air, the fastest growing European ultra-low-cost airline, operates a fleet of 198 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 60.3 million passengers in 2023. Wizz Air is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker WIZZ. The company was recently named the World's Top 5 Safest Low-Cost Airlines 2024 by airlineratings.com, the world's only safety and product rating agency, and named Airline of the Year by Air Transport Awards in 2019 and in 2023. Wizz Air has also been recognised as the "Most Sustainable Low-Cost Airline" within the World Finance Sustainability Awards in 2021-2023 and the "Global Environmental Sustainability Airline Group of the Year" by the CAPA-Centre for Aviation Awards for Excellence 2022-2023.

For more information:




Investors:

Zlatko Custovic, Wizz Air

+36 1 777 9407




Media:

Tamara Vallois, Wizz Air

 

James McFarlane / Eleni Menikou/ Charles Hirst, MHP Group:

+36 1 777 9324

 

+44 (0) 20 3128 8100




 

 

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