Wizz Air Holdings PLC May 2019 Traffic Statistics (9940A)

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RNS Number : 9940A

Wizz Air Holdings PLC

04 June 2019

MAY 2019 TRAFFIC STATISTICS

WIZZ AIR GROWS PASSENGER NUMBERS BY 22.4%

LOAD FACTOR INCREASES 2.0 PPTS TO 93.9%

Ticker: WIZZ

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

In May 2019, Wizz Air continued to grow its network and improve its customer offering as follows:

-- Route network expansion with the start of 9 new routes from/to: Poland (7x) and Ukraine (2x).

-- Opening of newest Polish base in Krakow with three based A320 family aircraft deployed in May, August and September in summer 2019.

-- Wizz Air was named 2019 Airline of the Year by Air Transport Awards, the only international prizes that award all the main categories of the air transport industry.

-- Celebration of 15 years of operation and a remarkable milestone of 200 million carried passengers.

 
                             Month                      Rolling 12 months to: 
                    ----------------------  --------  ------------------------  -------- 
                        May         May      Change      31 May       31 May     Change 
                        2019        2018                  2019         2018 
                    ----------              --------  -----------               -------- 
 Capacity (seats)    3,697,170   3,086,626    19.8%    38,411,496   33,359,776    15.1% 
                    ----------  ----------  --------  -----------  -----------  -------- 
 Passengers*         3,470,889   2,836,380    22.4%    35,725,349   30,513,700    17.1% 
                    ----------  ----------  --------  -----------  -----------  -------- 
 Load Factor**         93.9%       91.9%     2.0ppts     93.0%        91.5%      1.5ppts 
                    ----------  ----------  --------  -----------  -----------  -------- 
 

*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 113 Airbus A320 and Airbus A321 aircraft, and offers more than 650 routes from 25 bases, connecting 146 destinations across 44 countries. At Wizz Air, a team of more than 4,500 aviation professionals delivers superior service and very low ticket prices making Wizz Air the preferred choice of over 35 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, the world's only safety and product rating agency, and was recently named 2017 - European Airline of the Year by Aviation 100, a renowned annual publication that recognizes the year's most outstanding performers in the aerospace industry.

Additional Wizz Air Operational Statistics

 
                              Month                     Rolling 12 months to: 
                     ----------------------  -------  ------------------------  ------- 
                         May         May      Change     31 May       31 May     Change 
                         2019        2018                 2019         2018 
                     ----------              -------  -----------               ------- 
 Available Seat 
  Kilometres 
  (000s)              6,003,311   4,959,269   21.1%    62,324,686   53,058,285   17.5% 
                     ----------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ------- 
 Revenue Passenger 
  Kilometres 
  (000s)              5,656,397   4,550,933   24.3%    58,084,545   48,649,948   19.4% 
                     ----------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ------- 
 

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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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