Easyjet sees passenger numbers rise 8.4% in August

Budget airline Easyjet saw annual traffic pick up slightly in August, with passenger numbers up 8.4% on the year before.

Budget airline Easyjet saw annual traffic growth pick up slightly in August, with passenger numbers up 8.4% on the year before.

The number of passengers, measured by the number of earned seats flown, totalled 6.61m last month, up from 6.10m in August 2013. Annual passenger growth in July was 7.7%.

Easyjet is a no-refund airline so passenger numbers include all booked seats, regardless of whether or not the passenger turns up.

The load factor, which represents how full its planes are, increased by 1.4 percentage points (pp) over the year to 94.2%.

Meanwhile, the rolling 12-month passenger total came to 64.34m in August, up 6.4% year-on-year. The rolling 12-month load factor improved 1.1pp to 90.3%.

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