Passenger numbers higher at easyJet, though load factor descends

6th Dec 2016 07:09

(ShareCast News) - 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.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.