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Wizz Air third quarter profits plummet amid fuel cost offsets

Air
James Chapple
30 January 2019

Wizz Air’s winter profits have fallen almost 88% despite third quarter (Q3) revenue up more than 20% year-on-year, helping offset rising fuel costs.

Wizz expects to operate to 30% capacity during Q1 2021/22

The budget carrier on Wednesday (January 30) posted Q3 Ebitdar (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, amortisation, restructuring or rent) of €106.3 million for the three months to December 31, up from €104.2 million on the same period last year.

However, its quarterly profits plummeted 87.6% from €14 million to just €1.7 million.


Q3 revenue though increased 21.1% year-on-year from €422.9 million to €512.7 million driven, according to Wizz, by 14.9% passenger growth to 8.1 million for the quarter on a load factor of 91%.