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Wizz Air Holdings PLC

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RNS Number : 8240E

Wizz Air Holdings PLC

04 July 2023

JUNE 2023 TRAFFIC AND CO2 EMISSION STATISTICS

WIZZ AIR CARRIED 5.3 MILLION PASSENGERS, AN INCREASE OF 23% YEAR-ON-YEAR

Ticker:  WIZZ

Geneva, 4 July 2023: Wizz Air Holdings Plc ("Wizz Air"), the fastest growing and one of the most sustainable European airlines, today announces passenger and CO2 emission statistics for June 2023.

In June 2023, Wizz Air carried 5,314,584 passengers, representing a 22.5% increase compared to June 2022, at a load factor of 92.2%.

Wizz Air continued to grow its network and improve its customer offering in June, including:

·      Wizz Air announced addition of ten new routes to its Albanian network. New flights from Tirana to Birmingham, Edinburgh, Liverpool (UK), Bucharest (Romania), Sofia (Bulgaria), Prague (Czech Republic) and Krakow (Poland) will start in the upcoming winter season. The network expansion amounts to nearly 100 extra weekly flights scheduled for this winter;

·      Wizz Air took delivery of its latest A321neo aircraft from the Airbus assembly plant located in Tianjin, China. This is the first aircraft Wizz Air received from a non-European assembly plant, which also represents the very first one ever to be delivered to a European airline customer from Tianjin plant;

·      Wizz Air has been named the Most Sustainable Low-Cost Airline for the third consecutive year at the World Finance Sustainability Awards 2023;

·      Wizz Air announced that its entire fleet of aircraft at London Luton Airport will be made up of Airbus A321neo by 2025. This step is aligned with its long-term fleet renewal strategy, including partnering with airports in pursuit of mutual aviation carbon footprint reduction goals;

·      Wizz Air continuously operates the lowest CO2 emissions per passenger/km among all competitor airlines, with 52.5 grams per passenger/km for the rolling 12 months to 30 June 2023. For the month of June, CO2 emissions were 51.5 grams per passenger/km (8.4% lower compared to same month last year).

Month Rolling 12 months
June

2023
June

2022
Change** 30 June

2023
30 June

2022
Change
Capacity (seats) 5,761,666 5,039,277 14.3% 60,549,211 44,358,535 36.5%
Passengers* 5,314,584 4,340,115 22.5% 54,157,915 36,299,924 49.2%
Load Factor** 92.2% 86.1% 6.1pp 89.4% 81.8% 7.6pp

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

Wizz Air Monthly CO2 Emission Statistics**

Month Rolling 12 months to:
June 2023 June

2022
Change* 30 June

2023
30 June

2022
Change
CO2 emissions in tonnes 476,569 395,688 20.4% 4,925,442 3,503,426 40.6%
CO2 grams per passenger/km* 51.5 56.2 -8.4% 52.5 59.6 -11.8%

*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, and currently operates a fleet of 184 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 51.1 million passengers in the financial year F23 ending 31 March, 2023. 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 Airline of the Year by Air Transport World in 2020, as well as Airline of the Year by Air Transport Awards in 2019 and 2023. Wizz Air has also been recognised as the "Most Sustainable Low-Cost Airline" within the World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022 and the "Global Environmental Sustainability Airline Group of the Year" by the CAPA-Centre for Aviation Awards for Excellence 2022.

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For more information:
Investors: Zlatko Custovic, Wizz Air +36 1 777 9407
Media: Zsuzsa Trubek, Wizz Air

James McFarlane / Eleni Menikou, MHP Group:
+36 70 652 4115

+44 (0) 20 3128 8100

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