Wizz Air Holdings PLC May 2023 Traffic and CO2 Emission Statistics (4224B)

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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 
                    ----------              -------  -----------               ------- 
 Capacity (seats)    5,569,712   4,889,505   13.9%    59,826,822   41,751,423   43.3% 
                    ----------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ------- 
 Passengers*         5,026,575   4,117,271   22.1%    53,183,446   33,516,880   58.7% 
                    ----------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ------- 
 Load Factor**         90.2%       84.2%     6.0pp      88.9%        80.3%      8.6pp 
                    ----------  ----------  -------  -----------  -----------  ------- 
 

*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                            [phone] 
 
               Zsuzsa Trubek, Wizz Air 
                                                                    [phone] 
                Edward Bridges / Jonathan Neilan, FTI Consulting 
 Media:         LLP:                                                 [phone] 
 
 

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