Low-cost carriers rise in traffic

Tuesday, 07 Jan, 2015 0

EasyJet saw a 6.5% rise in traffic in the 12 months up to December when its load factors – the percentage of available seats sold – rose to just over 90%.

In December, it carried 4.63 million passengers, a rise of 3.2% over the same month in 2013.

For the full year, passenger numbers topped 65 million.

Meanwhile Norwegian reported its highest ever passenger figures in a single year with almost 24 million passengers in 2014, an increase of three million compared to 2013.

The load factor was 81% in 2014, up from 78% in 2013.

Norwegian carried 1.6 million passengers in December and the load factor was up 3.3 percentage points on December 2013.



 

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Editor Linsey McNeill has been writing about travel for more than three decades. Bylines include The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Which? plus the South China Morning Post. She also shares insider tips on thetraveljournalist.co.uk



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