WIZZ AIR's passenger levels have increased despite the last few months of travel disruption.

The low-cost carrier yesterday announced it carried 4.7m passengers in July, up from 4.3m a month earlier.

Load factor - the measure of how well an airline fills its seats - grew by 3.6 per cent on June's levels to 89.7 per cent.

Wizz Air announced the launch of several new routes, including from Abu Dhabi to the Maldives and

Kuwait. It also expanded its winter schedule with new services from Romania, Hungary, Italy and Poland.

The airline made the headlines last month when it announced it would cut additional flights from its summer schedule to battle the ongoing travel chaos.

Chief executive Jozsef Varadi said last Wednesday that cancellations would amount to a total of 10 per cent, up from the five per cent announced in early July.

The airline has recently posted a statutory loss of £380m despite an increase of more than 300 per cent in both passengers and revenue.

"Whilst we are rebuilding the airline with greater scale we remain very conscious of the challenging macroeconomic and operational backdrop," Varadi said last month while commenting on the company's first quarter results.

"Lingering restrictions from Covid- 19 remained, particularly during April and May, while the war in Ukraine and supply chain disruptions affecting air traffic control, security and ground operation resources have impacted our utilisation."

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