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easyJet v Wizz Air
The Luton-based low-cost airline and the UK arm of its Hungarian-based rival. How do their accounts compare?
easyJet leads on all five measures that matter most: turnover, pre-tax profit, profit margin, growth and net assets. easyJet is the biggest by turnover at £10,106m, against £447m at Wizz Air UK. easyJet keeps more of every £100 it takes, £6.51 as pre-tax profit.
The year ends are up to 6 months apart, so this compares each company's most recent filing rather than the same twelve months. easyJet files group accounts that include subsidiaries; Wizz Air UK files for a single company, which flatters the group on size.
Accounts compared: easyJet to Sep 2025 · Wizz Air UK to Mar 2025
Who they are
easyJet
easyJet PLC · 03959649easyJet is a low-cost airline flying short-haul routes across the UK and Europe, and it also sells package holidays through easyJet holidays.In brief: low-cost airline · short-haul Europe · package holidays · listedFull profile →Wizz Air UK
Wizz Air UK Limited · 10982241Wizz Air UK is the British airline company of the Wizz Air group, flying low-cost short and medium-haul routes from UK airports to Europe and the Middle East.In brief: low-cost airline · UK arm only · flies to Europe and the Middle East · owned by Wizz Air Holdings PlcFull profile →The Numbers
The leader on each measure is marked. Movements are against each company's own prior year. Pre-tax profit is filed except where marked (est.).
Category winners
The Takeaway
- easyJet converts the most of its turnover. Of every £100, £6.51 reaches pre-tax profit, against a loss of £9.93 at Wizz Air UK.
- easyJet is the largest on the top line, £10,106m of turnover, 22.6x Wizz Air UK's £447m.
- easyJet is growing fastest, turnover +8.6% on its own prior year.
- easyJet is the biggest employer with 18,968 people; easyJet pays the most per head, an average staff cost of about £78,000.
- easyJet has the largest balance sheet, net assets of £3,498m.
Who keeps the most of every £100 of sales?
easyJet keeps the most: £6.51 of every £100 of turnover becomes pre-tax profit. Wizz Air UK does worst, losing £9.93.
Every profit figure here is the one the company filed.
The chart splits each company's turnover into £100: what goes on people, on interest and on everything else, and what is left as profit.
Out of every £100 of turnover
Each column is £100 of that company's own turnover, so companies of any size compare on one scale; the figures are pounds out of each £100, not millions. Companies run from the best margin to the worst. Payroll is staff costs, financing is interest paid, other running costs are everything else, and profit is pre-tax profit, filed or estimated as marked in the table. A loss is not an extra cost: it is the part of the costs that runs past the £100 line, marked with a red bracket. Hover over any segment for its figure.
Who is the biggest, and does the comparison hold?
By turnover the order is easyJet (£10,106m), Wizz Air UK (£447m).
By headcount, easyJet leads with 18,968 employees.
The comparison holds with the dates stated plainly: easyJet to Sep 2025, Wizz Air UK to Mar 2025. The bases differ: group accounts include the businesses a company owns, single-company accounts do not.
Turnover on the latest filing
Who is growing fastest?
easyJet grew fastest, turnover +8.6% on its own prior year, ahead of Wizz Air UK (+6.2%).
Turnover change on each company's own prior year
Who employs the most, who pays the most, and who brings in the most per head?
easyJet employs the most, 18,968 people, against 886 at Wizz Air UK.
easyJet has the highest average staff cost, about £78,000 a head; Wizz Air UK the lowest, about £75,000.
easyJet brings in the most turnover per employee, about £533,000, against £505,000 at Wizz Air UK. It says as much about the business model as the workforce: a marketplace or a wholesaler needs far fewer people per pound than a restaurant or a gym.
Who owns each one?
Ownership as recorded on the Companies House register of people with significant control, in the bands the register uses.
Owned by its shareholders
Listed on the London Stock Exchange, so no single controller appears on the register.
Who owns easyJet →
Wizz Air UK Limited · 10982241Held by Wizz Air Holdings Plc
A company recorded as a person with significant control. 24 outstanding charges on the register.
Who owns Wizz Air UK →
What does the full ledger show?
| Measure | easyJet | Wizz Air UK |
|---|---|---|
| Registered name | EASYJET PLC | WIZZ AIR UK LIMITED |
| Company number | 03959649 | 10982241 |
| Incorporated | 2000 | 2017 |
| Accounts filed | 24 February 2026 | 5 January 2026 |
| Turnover, prior year | £9,309m | £421m |
| Pre-tax profit, prior year | £602m | -£22m |
| Staff costs | £1,475m | £66m |
| Payroll share of turnover | 14.6% | 14.9% |
| Employees, prior year | 17,639 | 827 |
| Dividends paid | £91m | n/d |
| Charges outstanding | 0 | 24 |
A figure the filing does not disclose is shown as n/d; a zero in a filing is treated as not disclosed. Rounding: below £0.1m in thousands, £0.1m to £2m to one decimal place, above that to the nearest million.
EasyJet v Wizz Air: common questions
Who is the biggest of easyJet or Wizz Air UK?
easyJet, with turnover of £10,106m in the year to September 2025.
Which makes the most profit?
easyJet: £658m pre-tax in the year to September 2025.
Which employs the most people?
easyJet, with 18,968 employees in its latest accounts.
easyJet or Wizz Air UK: which is bigger?
easyJet, with turnover of £10,106m against £447m at Wizz Air UK on their latest filings. On margin, easyJet keeps more of each £100 as pre-tax profit. The full head to head is in the VS Series. Read the VS page →
Where do these figures come from?
Each company's latest accounts filed at Companies House. Each links to its full Spark Intel profile, which names the filing it comes from.
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