Wizz Air Holdings PLC January 2019 Traffic Statistics (9046O)

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RNS Number : 9046O

Wizz Air Holdings PLC

04 February 2019

JANUARY 2019 TRAFFIC STATISTICS

WIZZ AIR GROWS PASSENGER NUMBERS BY 10%

LOAD FACTOR INCREASES 0.4 PPTS TO 88.1%

Ticker: WIZZ

Geneva, 4 February 2019: Wizz Air Holdings Plc ("Wizz Air"), the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announces passenger statistics for January 2019.

In January 2019, Wizz Air continued to grow its network and improve its customer offering with the following announcements:

-- Route network expansion with 14 new routes announced to/from Macedonia (8x), Romania (5x) and Albania (1x).

-- Base expansion in Macedonia and Romania with additional based A320 family aircraft to be deployed in Skopje and Timisoara from summer 2019.

 
                             Month                       Rolling 12 months to: 
                    ----------------------  ---------  ------------------------  --------- 
                      January     January     Change    31 January   31 January    Change 
                        2019        2018                   2019         2018 
                    ----------              ---------  -----------               --------- 
 Capacity (seats)    2,915,508   2,663,658    +9.5%     36,864,096   31,462,356    +17.2% 
                    ----------  ----------  ---------  -----------  -----------  --------- 
 Passengers*         2,569,229   2,336,206    +10.0%    34,047,145   28,729,603    +18.5% 
                    ----------  ----------  ---------  -----------  -----------  --------- 
 Load Factor**         88.1%       87.7%     +0.4ppts     92.4%        91.3%      +1.1ppts 
                    ----------  ----------  ---------  -----------  -----------  --------- 
 

*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 106 Airbus A320 and Airbus A321 aircraft, and offers more than 600 routes from 26 bases, connecting 144 destinations across 44 countries. At Wizz Air, a team of more than 4,400 aviation professionals delivers superior service and very low ticket prices making Wizz Air the preferred choice of over 33 million passengers in the past 12 months. 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 recently received the highest 7-star safety rating by airlineratings.com, a world's only safety and product rating agency, as well as was recently named 2017 - European Airline of the Year by Aviation 100, a renown annual publication that recognizes the year's most outstanding performers in the aerospace industry.

Additional Wizz Air Operational Statistics

 
                              Month                     Rolling 12 months to: 
                     ----------------------  -------  ------------------------  ------- 
                       January     January    Change   31 January   31 January   Change 
                         2019        2018                 2019         2018 
                     ----------              -------  -----------               ------- 
 Available Seat 
  Kilometres 
  (000s)              4,768,336   4,220,723   +13.0%   59,385,430   50,008,537   +18.8% 
                     ----------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ------- 
 Revenue Passenger 
  Kilometres 
  (000s)              4,249,110   3,747,042   +13.4%   54,935,352   45,792,703   +20.0% 
                     ----------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ------- 
 

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

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