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Jakub Caithaml

WOOD Flash - EMEA airlines: 1Q24 traffic - a good start to the year

While the share prices of the European airlines have been hit in recent days, by the heightened geopolitical tensions, all the European carriers in our coverage universe have seen a good start to the year in terms of traffic. Wizz Air has flown roughly double its 1Q19 ASK, on the back of the significant investments into its network and fleet that continued even during the pandemic. To put this into context, Ryanair has flown roughly 20% more pax in calendar 1Q24 compared to 1Q19. Pegasus Airlines (Pegasus), Turkish Airlines (THYAO) and Aegean Airlines (Aegean) have been increasing the share of the profitable international business in their total traffic mix. For Pegasus, whose total ASK was up c.50% in 1Q24 vs. 1Q19, its international segment was flying 85% more capacity compared to pre-pandemic. At Aegean, the number of passengers rose expanded 13% vs. 1Q19, but the number of international passengers increased 22% in 1Q24, compared to before the pandemic. THYAO has been flying 37% more ASK in 1Q24 compared to 1Q19, with international ASK up 42%.
Underlyings
Aegean Airlines SA

Aegean Airlines is an airline carrier based in Greece. Co. is engaged in aviation transportation, providing services that concern the transportation of passengers and commodities in the sector of public aviation transportation inside and outside Greece, conducting scheduled and unscheduled flights. Co. provides full service, premium quality short and medium haul services. Co. maintains a network of 145 destinations, 111 international in 45 countries and 34 domestic destinations. Co. is a member of global airline network, the Star Alliance network.

Pegasus Hava Tasimaciligi AS

Pegasus Hava Tasimaciligi is a low-cost airline group based in Turkey. Co. provides reasonably-priced transportation opportunities on point-to-point basis in short and medium range flight lines on its domestic and international network. Co. primarily provides transportation opportunities from its main hub in Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, but also offers scheduled flights from other domestic hubs, primarily in Adana, Antalya and Izmir. Co.'s fleet is composed of 49 airplanes in total. Co.'s flight network consists of 76 locations (45 abroad and 31 domestic flight locations in 30 countries). Co. also provides cargo services and provides various training services.

Turk Hava Yollari A.O.

Turk Hava Yollari is engaged in the airline industry with the airline flying to 103 destinations, throughout Turkey and internationally. As of the year end, Co. maintains 66 aircrafts with a total seat capacity of 10,672, and leases a A300-200 cargo aircraft. Co. has various services for their customers which include: various ways of checking in and on-line ticket sales.

Wizz Air Holdings Plc

Wizz Air Holding is a European airline. As of Mar 31 2017, Co. provided more than 500 routes from 28 bases, connecting 141 destinations across 42 countries. Co. has two reportable segments: the airline and the tour operator business units, marketed under the Wizz Air and Wizz Tours brand names, respectively. Wizz Air sells flight tickets and related services to external customers and, to an extent, to Wizz Tours. Wizz Tours sells travel packages to external customers covering the network of Wizz Air.

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Jakub Caithaml

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