3rd Dec 2019 08:38
(Alliance News) - Budget airline Ryanair Holdings PLC and Hungarian FTSE 250 carrier Wizz Air Holdings PLC on Tuesday reported a year-on-year rise in passenger traffic for the month of November.
The Irish carrier said group traffic rose by 5.8% to 11.0 million from 10.4 million in November 2018. The figure includes its eponymous Ryanair brand and Austrian airline Lauda.
In the Ryanair division, November traffic rose by 4.0% year-on-year to 10.5 million from 10.1 million and in Lauda, by 67% to 500,000 from 300,000 last year.
On a rolling annual basis, group traffic has grown 9.0% to 151.6 million from 139.1 million.
Wizz Air reported a November capacity increase of 27% to 3.2 million from 2.6 million. Load factor increased to 92.8% from 91.2%.
November passengers rose by 25% to 3.0 million from 2.4 million last year.
Available seat kilometres was up by 21% to 5.2 million from 4.3 million and revenue passenger kilometres grew by 4.9 million from 3.9 million in November 2018.
On a rolling annual basis, capacity is up 15% to 41.8 million, total passengers up by 17% to 39.1 million with load factor up 1.3 percentage points to 93.6%.
During November, the Hungarian carrier added 11 new routes, which included 4 in Poland, 2 in Ukraine and 1 in the UK.
Shares in Ryanair were up 1.9% in London on Tuesday morning at EUR13.92 each. Wizz Air was up 1.1% at 3,991.00 pence.
By Paul McGowan; [email protected]
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