Finances airline Wizz Air mentioned 2.6 million passengers booked flights throughout December regardless of the speedy unfold of the Omicron variant of coronavirus placing many off travelling over the festive interval.
Bosses mentioned this was a near-threefold enhance on the 666,000 passengers it flew in the identical month a yr in the past, making a load issue on its planes of 75.4% in contrast with 56.1% in December 2020.
It meant the airline flew 21.7 million passengers in complete in 2021 – up 30% on the 16.7 million flown in 2020 throughout a yr of quite a few journey restrictions.
The corporate additionally mentioned it has purchased 15 day by day slots from Norwegian Air Shuttle at Gatwick resulting in 4 additional planes being primarily based on the London airport.
New routes from Gatwick to 14 locations together with Faro, Palma, Tel Aviv and Mykonos will probably be added, together with routes from Milan, Rome, Vienna and Naples, amongst others, operated by Wizz Air Hungary.
The brand new flights will launch in March as the corporate hopes to see a considerable return of passengers when the newest wave of the pandemic subsides.
As a part of environmental guidelines, Wizz Air additionally revealed its CO2 emissions ranges, with 277,000 tonnes emitted throughout the month, though this was down per passenger from 85.6 grams per kilometre to 63.8 grams per kilometre.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
