Budget travel Christmas slump
Budget carriers Ryanair and Wizz flew 80% fewer passengers for the second consecutive month in December.
Traffic on Ryanair was down by 83% to just 1.9 million passengers last month. During the whole of 2020 it flew just over 52 million passengers, two-thirds fewer than in 2019.
Wizz carried 665,000 passengers last month, a fall of 80%. It revealed today that almost half of the seats on its flights were empty in December, which led to a 44% increase in Co2 emissions per passenger.
The Hungary-based airline carried only 16 million during the whole of 2020, a 58% year-on-year fall.
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