Wizz Air passenger numbers up 22.1% to 5 million

Wizz Air Holdings Plc (LON:WIZZ), the fastest growing and one of the most sustainable European airlines, has announced passenger and CO₂ 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:

·      announced 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;

·      announced 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;

·      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;

·      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;

·      announced that it operated five flights from Budapest Airport with a 37% blend of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel™ 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 CO₂ emissions and prepares the fuel supply system at Budapest Airport ahead of EU SAF blending mandates;

·      Wizz Air continuously operates the lowest CO₂ 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, CO₂ emissions were 52.1 grams per passenger/km (8.9% lower compared to same month last year).

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

Wizz Air Monthly CO2 Emission Statistics**

*rounded to one decimal place

**excluding cargo flights