7th Jun 2005 07:00
easyJet PLC07 June 2005 7th June 2005 EASYJET PASSENGER STATISTICS FOR MAY 2005 __________________________________________________________________ Month ending May 2005 May 2004 Change Passengers1 2,551,619 2,092,709 +21.9%Load Factor2 84.1% 81.1% +3pp__________________________________________________________________ Rolling 12 months ending May 2005 May 2004 Change Passengers1 27,946,206 22,388,318 +24.8%Load Factor2 85.1% 83.9% +1.2ppTotal Revenue3 1,239m 1,015m +22.1%__________________________________________________________________ Ray Webster, easyJet Chief Executive, said: "May 2005 was yet another month of innovation and achievement for easyJet. Weannounced that we were, yet again, leveraging our proprietary reservation systemto remove barriers to purchase and make life easier for our customers; this timeby allowing up to 40 passengers to be booked in a single online booking - anincrease from the previous eight. "New services were announced from Basle, our fifth European base. We introducedBasle to the easyJet network following our withdrawal from high-cost Zurich andwe expect to carry some 1.2m passengers on our 13 routes in the coming 12months. "A couple of weeks after celebrating the arrival of our 100th aircraft, wereached another important milestone when we welcomed our 100 millionth passenger- a grandmother on her way to Malaga with her family; and for the fourth yearrunning, we were voted the favourite low-cost airline for business travellers inthe Barclaycard Business Survey 2005. "We have no change to the guidance issued to investors at the time of ourinterim financial results. Based on our current trading outlook, total revenueper seat for the year to September 2005 is likely to be unchanged compared tothe same period last year. At prevailing fuel prices and exchanges rates, wecontinue to expect reported pre-tax profit to be below last year but in linewith current expectations." END For further details please contact: easyJet plc Financial:Andrew Barker, Investor Relations +44 (0) 1582 525 274 Press:Toby Nicol, Corporate Communications +44 (0) 1582 525 339 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 tax This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
easyJet