Discount carrier Wizz Air transported 40% more passengers in March versus the month before to reach 768,113.
But the Eastern Europe-focused airline’s load factor dropped from 69.8% to 62.5%, as management added to capacity, with the number of available seats being increased from 382,928 to 480,203.
The company’s load factor was thus 29.4% below its year-earlier level, versus 24 percentage points less in February.
The rolling load factor for the last 12 months meanwhile was at 63.9%, against 67.1% in February, and 29.6 percentage points beneath its year earlier level.
The 12-month average load factor to the end of February was 26.5 points below its year-earlier level.
