7th Mar 2005 07:02
easyJet PLC07 March 2005 7 March 2005 EASYJET PASSENGER STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY 2005____________________________________________________________________ Month ending February 2005 February 2004 Change Passengers1 2,168,985 1,864,970 +16.3%Load Factor2 85.9% 88.6% -2.7pp ____________________________________________________________________ Rolling 12 months ending February 2005 February 2004 Change Passengers1 26,420,497 21,535,211 +22.7%Load Factor2 84.2% 84.4% -0.2ppTotal Revenue3 £1,176m £992m +18.5% __________________________________________________________________ Ray Webster, easyJet Chief Executive, said: "Passenger numbers rose by a satisfactory 16.3% in February, and load factorswere ahead of the 12-month rolling average. It should be noted that the loadfactor for February 2004 was unusually high. "New routes have been announced to Asturias, Grenoble and Maastricht-Aachen. Anexpansion of our Berlin base is planned with routes to the convenient airportsof London Gatwick, Milan and Rome. In less than 12 months from start-up, easyJethas become the largest low-cost carrier operating from Berlin with 27 routes andwe expect to carry over 3 million passengers to and from the German capital in2005." END For further details please contact: easyJet plc Press:Toby Nicol, Corporate Communications +44 (0) 1582 525 339 Analysts:Cliff Hide, Investor Relations +44 (0) 1582 525 274 1.Represents the number of earned seats flown. Earned seats include seats thatare flown whether or not the passenger turns up because easyJet is a no-refundairline, and once a flight has departed a no-show customer is generally notentitled to change flights or seek a refund. Earned seats also include seatsprovided for promotional purposes and to staff for business travel. 2. Represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of seatsavailable for passengers. No weighting of the load factor is carried out torecognise the effect of varying flight (or "stage") lengths. 3. Represents unaudited statutory revenue, which includes the invoiced value ofairline and ancillary services, net of passenger taxes and discounts. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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