easyJet see passenger growth accelerate in May

Year-on-year passenger growth at budget airline easyJet continued to accelerate in May, the group said on Friday.

Year-on-year passenger growth at budget airline easyJet continued to accelerate in May, the group said on Friday.

easyJet flew 5,423,726 passengers in May 2012, 14.4% higher than the 4,739,436 in the same month of 2011. Meanwhile, the load factor, which is a measure of how full its planes are, improved by 3.9 percentage points (pp) from 84.1% last May to 88.0%.

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