Wizz Air Holdings PLC November 2018 Traffic Statistics (2872J)

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Wizz Air Holdings PLC

04 December 2018

NOVEMBER 2018 TRAFFIC STATISTICS

WIZZ AIR GROWS PASSENGER NUMBERS BY 11%

LOAD FACTOR INCREASES 2.9 PPTS TO 91.2%

Ticker: WIZZ

Geneva, 4 December 2018: Wizz Air Holdings Plc ("Wizz Air"), the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, today announces passenger statistics for November 2018.

In November 2018, Wizz Air continued to grow its network, enhance its operations and improve its customer offering with the following announcements:

-- Krakow to become Wizz Air's 26(th) base with two brand new Airbus A321 aircraft deployed from summer 2019 operating 12 new routes to nine countries.

-- Further consolidation of Wizz Air's number one market position Hungary and Romania with the deployment of a two additional brand new Airbus A321 aircraft.

-- Route network expansion with 17 new routes announced to/from Poland and Ukraine (12x), Hungary (2x), Romania (2x) and Lithuania (1x).

-- Fleet expansion with the delivery of an additional brand new Airbus A321, taking Wizz Air's current fleet to 105 aircraft.

-- Inauguration of Wizz Air's brand new EUR30 million state-of-the-art pilot and cabin crew training centre in Budapest. The facility currently operates two full motion simulators and can train up to 300 crew members on a daily basis.

 
                             Month                        Rolling 12 months to: 
                    ----------------------  ---------  --------------------------  --------- 
                     November    November     Change    30 November   30 November    Change 
                        2018        2017                    2018          2017 
                    ----------              ---------  ------------                --------- 
 Capacity (seats)    2,631,744   2,443,946    +7.7%     36,187,300    30,513,878     +18.6% 
                    ----------  ----------  ---------  ------------  ------------  --------- 
 Passengers*         2,400,337   2,157,742    +11.2%    33,401,909    27,900,387     +19.7% 
                    ----------  ----------  ---------  ------------  ------------  --------- 
 Load Factor**         91.2%       88.3%     +2.9ppts      92.3%         91.4%      +0.9ppts 
                    ----------  ----------  ---------  ------------  ------------  --------- 
 

*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 105 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 4,000 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: 
                     ----------------------  -------  --------------------------  ------- 
                      November    November    Change   30 November   30 November   Change 
                         2018        2017                  2018          2017 
                     ----------              -------  ------------                ------- 
 Available Seat 
  Kilometres 
  (000s)              4,303,592   3,900,231   +10.3%   58,029,638    48,537,438    +19.6% 
                     ----------  ----------  -------  ------------  ------------  ------- 
 Revenue Passenger 
  Kilometres 
  (000s)              3,923,176   3,450,268   +13.7%   53,656,356    44,474,947    +20.6% 
                     ----------  ----------  -------  ------------  ------------  ------- 
 

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