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Ryanair and Wizz Air: Budget airlines report increases in passenger numbers
Yorkshire Post
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04/03/2024
Low-cost airlines Wizz Air and Ryanair both saw jumps in the number of passengers taking their flights in February.
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Hello, my name is Greg Wright and I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post.
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Here are your business headlines for this morning.
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The low-cost airlines Wizz Air and Ryanair both saw increases in the number of passengers last month.
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Ryanair, which is the larger of the two companies, said it carried 11.1 million passengers last month,
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an increase of 5% from the 10.6 million people who took a Ryanair flight in February 2023.
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Its load factor, which is the proportion of seats that were filled with passengers, was 92% unchanged from a year earlier.
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Meanwhile, Wizz Air announced a 15.8% rise in passenger numbers last month,
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compared with February 2023 to 4.4 million.
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Its load factor was 90%.
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So an update there from two low-cost airlines, Wizz Air and Ryanair, both seeing increases in passenger numbers last month.
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My name is Greg Wright and I'm the Deputy Business Editor of the Yorkshire Post.
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