Wizz Air Holdings PLC JANUARY 2020 TRAFFIC AND CO2 EMISSION STATISTICS (8160B)

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Wizz Air Holdings PLC

04 February 2020

JANUARY 2020 TRAFFIC AND CO2 EMISSION STATISTICS

WIZZ AIR GROWS PASSENGER NUMBERS BY 23% TO 3.2M

LOAD FACTOR INCREASES BY 2PPTs TO 90%

Ticker: WIZZ

Geneva, 4 February 2020: Wizz Air Holdings Plc ("Wizz Air"), the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announces passenger and CO2 emission statistics for January 2020.

In January 2020, Wizz Air continued to grow its network and improve its customer offering as follows:

-- Wizz Air announced further expansion to Russia by launching four new routes from Pulkovo Airport, Saint Petersburg starting in summer 2020.

-- Route network expansion with the announcement of 18 routes: Albania (5x) Austria (5x), Bulgaria (3x), Hungary (1x), Lithuania (1x), Romania (1x), Slovakia (1x), United Kingdom (1x).

-- Base expansion with an additional Airbus A321 aircraft to its Vienna base from July 2020, taking the base to nine aircraft with five new routes and additional frequencies on existing routes.

-- Wizz Air continuously operates at the lowest CO2 emissions per passenger/km amongst all competitor airlines. At 58.9 grams, CO2 emissions in grams per passenger/km for the month of January were 0.9% lower than in the same month last year.

 
                             Month                      Rolling 12 months to: 
                    ----------------------  --------  ------------------------  -------- 
                      January     January    Change    31 January   31 January   Change 
                        2020        2019                  2020         2019 
                    ----------              --------  -----------               -------- 
 Capacity (seats)    3,492,244   2,915,508    19.8%    43,109,378   36,864,096    16.9% 
                    ----------  ----------  --------  -----------  -----------  -------- 
 Passengers*         3,151,622   2,569,229    22.7%    40,383,170   34,047,145    18.6% 
                    ----------  ----------  --------  -----------  -----------  -------- 
 Load Factor**         90.2%       88.1%     2.1ppts     93.7%        92.4%      1.3ppts 
                    ----------  ----------  --------  -----------  -----------  -------- 
 

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

Wizz Air Monthly CO2 Emission Statistics

 
                             Month                   Rolling 12 months to: 
                      ------------------  -------  ------------------------  ------- 
                       January   January   Change   31 January   31 January   Change 
                         2020      2019                2020         2019 
                      --------            -------  -----------               ------- 
 CO2 emissions 
  in tonnes*           306,136   252,391   21.3%    3,788,246    3,237,818    17.0% 
                      --------  --------  -------  -----------  -----------  ------- 
 CO2 grams 
  per passenger/km*     58.9      59.4     -0.9%       57.3         58.9      -2.8% 
                      --------  --------  -------  -----------  -----------  ------- 
 

*rounded to one decimal place

Additional Wizz Air Operational Statistics

 
                              Month                     Rolling 12 months to: 
                     ----------------------  -------  ------------------------  ------- 
                       January     January    Change   31 January   31 January   Change 
                         2020        2019                 2020         2019 
                     ----------              -------  -----------               ------- 
 Available Seat 
  Kilometres 
  (000s)              5,698,517   4,768,336   19.5%    70,374,364   59,385,430   18.5% 
                     ----------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ------- 
 Revenue Passenger 
  Kilometres 
  (000s)              5,201,330   4,249,110   22.4%    66,124,312   54,935,352   20.4% 
                     ----------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ------- 
 

ABOUT WIZZ AIR

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, offers more than 710 routes from 25 bases, connecting 154 destinations across 45 countries. A team of more than 5,000 aviation professionals delivers superior service and very low fares making Wizz Air the preferred choice of 40 million passengers in the past 12 months. WIZZ operates an all-Airbus fleet of 120 aircraft. Its A320s are equipped with 180 seats, its A321s with 230 seats and its A321neo aircraft with 239 seats. According to the latest data of the Swiss airline intelligence provider CH-Aviation, Wizz Air has one of the youngest airline fleets in the world. 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 one of the world's top ten safest airlines by airlineratings.com, the world's only safety and product rating agency, and 2019 - Airline of the Year by Air Transport Awards the only international awards that recognizes the year's most outstanding performers in the aerospace industry in the most important categories.

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 For more information: 
 
 Investors:    Evelin Horvath, Wizz Air                            [phone] 
 
 Media:        Tamara Vallois, Wizz Air:                           [phone] 
  Edward Bridges / Jonathan Neilan, FTI Consulting 
   LLP:                                                            [phone] 
 
 

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