Wizz Air Holdings (LSE:WIZZ) reported it carried 6.63 million passengers in April, a 21.9% increase year-on-year, while seats rose 23.1% to 7.46 million and the load factor eased 0.9 percentage points to 88.9%.
The rolling 12‑month figures show capacity of 78.28 million seats and 70.94 million booked passengers, compared with 70.16 million seats and 63.93 million passengers a year earlier.
Wizz Air will base a third A321neo at Palermo from 6 September, enabling two new domestic routes to Rome Fiumicino (three times daily) and Pisa (ten times weekly) alongside international services to Barcelona, Dortmund, Marrakech and Prague.
The airline will also open a seventh Italian base in Turin in October 2026, basing two A321neos and doubling originating capacity from the city to over one million seats this year.
Cirium ranked Wizz Air Europe’s most emissions-efficient airline in its 2025 EmeraldSky Annual Review.
Chief executive Jozsef Varadi rejected recent media commentary on the group’s finances, reaffirming the airline’s strong liquidity and noting it has hedged roughly 70% of summer jet fuel at about US$720 per metric ton.
The immediate operational milestones are the Palermo third aircraft entering service on 6 September and the Turin base opening in October 2026.
