Wizz Air says traffic declined in July after CrowdStrike outage

By Pierre Bertrand

Wizz Air Holdings reported a decline in both passenger numbers and seating capacity in July, when some of its flights were disrupted by the CrowdStrike outage that crashed computers around the world.

The eastern Europe-focused budget airline said it flew 5.9 million passengers last month, down 1.4% from 6.03 million in July of last year.

Wizz (UK:WIZZ) said around 1% of its flights were disrupted by last month's IT outage, which upended flight schedules across the globe.

On a rolling 12-month basis, passengers numbers rose nearly 12% to 62 million.

The airline's capacity edged down 0.3% on year in July to 6.3 million seats, but on a 12-month rolling basis was up nearly 12% higher at 68.9 million seats, the company said.

Load factor, a measure of how full planes are, declined to 93.8% in July from 94.9% a year ago, and was flat at 90% on a rolling 12-month basis.

Write to Pierre Bertrand at pierre.bertrand@wsj.com

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