Low-cost airline easyJet sees large rise in passenger numbers

Low-cost airline easyJet saw a 28 percent rise in the number of passengers using its service last month.

Low-cost airline easyJet saw a 28 percent rise in the number of passengers using its service last month.

The firm's latest figure reveal it carried 531,235 passengers in February, compared to 413,469 at the same stage a year ago.

Load factor, a measure of how successful an airline is at filling the number of seats on offer, was 82.3 percent, which was unchanged.

Internet sales accounted for 85.1 percent of business, a rise of more than 35 percent.