Wizz Air passenger numbers increase 4% YOY in October

Wizz Air Holdings Plc (LON:WIZZ), one of the most sustainable European airlines, has announced passenger and CO₂ emission statistics for October 2024.

Wizz Air carried 5.6 million passengers during the month of October, an increase of 4.1% year on year. Seat capacity was up 3.7%YoY, despite the Pratt & Whitney GTF engine-related groundings, resulting in a load factor of 92.9%, up 40bps 70bps on last year’s 92.5%.

During the month:

– Wizz Air announced on October 21^st that it will open a temporary base in Chisinau, Moldova, commencing direct connections to 16 destinations from December 16^th.

– Wizz Air also officially opened its new €38m training centre in Rome Fiumicino on October 1^st, with the facility able to provide recurrent training for over 4,800 pilots a year.

– While still one of the leading airlines in terms of lower emissions per passenger, October saw CO₂/RPK emission increase by 1.9% YoY, to 51.6 grams/RPK. This reflected flying a suboptimal fleet mix due to the GTF related groundings of some of Wizz Air’s A321neos. With that said, this was an improvement on the 52.3g of CO₂/ RPK emitted in September.

– Wizz also announced on October 21^st that it is collaborating with Airbus in a SAF trial on its Barcelona to Budapest (BCN-BUD) and Brussels Charleroi to Budapest (CRL-BUD) routes.

	Month				Rolling 12 months
	October2024	October2023	ChangeYoY	October2024		October2023	ChangeYoY
Capacity (seats)	6,056,365	5,843,047	3.7%	69,376,724		64,108,442	8.2%
Passengers*	5,627,110	5,404,480	4.1%	62,511,067		58,450,975	6.9%
Load Factor**	92.9%	92.5%	0.4ppts	90.1%		91.2%	-1.1ppts

*booked passengers

**rounded to one decimal place

Wizz Air Monthly CO2 Emission Statistics*

	Month			Rolling 12 months
	October2024	October2023	ChangeYoY	October2024	October2023	ChangeYoY
CO2 (MT)emissions	508,296	487,676	4.2%	5,786,374	5,297,702	9.2%
CO2g per pax/km**	51.6	50.7	1.9%	52.7	51.4	2.6%