Passenger numbers higher at easyJet, though load factor descends
Low-cost carrier easyJet posted its passenger statistics for November on Tuesday, with total passengers for the month improving 2.9% to 4,947,060 year-on-year.
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At the same time , load factor dropped 0.6 percentage points to 89.7%.
The FTSE 100 airline carried a total of 73,720,867 passengers in the rolling 12 months to the end of November, a 5.9% improvement.
EasyJet’s load factor, however, also dropped over the same period, by 0.5 percentage points to 91.3%.
The company defines passengers as the “number of earned seats flown”, including seats that are flown whether or not the passenger turns up as easyJet is a no-refund airline.
Load factor represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of seats available to passengers, and no weighting of the load factor is carried out.