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The low-cost airlines had nearly 3m passengers in the first six months of the year. It may be hard for them to repeat the growth rates.

The first half of this year was the best in the history. Low-costs had nearly 3m passengers. In 2005, they had 3.2m passengers (12 months). This year they will more than double their results.

WizzAir remains the leader. It had 1m passengers in the first half of the year, nearly two times more (92.08 percent) than in the same period of last year. The Hungarian company plans to have 2m clients in the year. It has a big rival however. Irish Ryanair, the most expansive airline in Poland, is also planning to have 2m passengers this year. In the first six months of the year, it had 920,500 passengers, or 2,722 percent more than a year earlier. Centralwings, the low-cost owned by LOT, the Polish flag carrier, increased the number of passengers by 137 percent to 329,000. Germanwings and SkyEurope have over 15-percent growth rates (they had 101,000 and 260,000 passengers respectively). EasyJet, which globally is Ryanair’s rival, was the only airline to have the same number of passengers (210,000).