Ryanair, Europe’s largest airline, today (3rd July) announced that its June traffic increased by 13% to 5.8 million passengers, a new monthly record, smashing the 5.7 million passenger record set in August 2008. Ryanair also carried over 60 MILLION passengers in the 12 months to the end of June – a new annual traffic record.
The following are Ryanair’s passenger and load factor statistics for June 2009:
Jun 08
Jun 09
Increase
12 mth to 30 Jun 09
Passengers (m) 1
5.17m
5.84m
+13%
60.2m
Load Factor 2
84%
85%
+1%
82%
1. Represents the number of earned seats flown by Ryanair.
2. Represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of seats available for passengers.
Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said:
“Ryanair’s growth of 13% to 5.8 million passengers for June and 60 million passengers for the 12 month period, establish new records for Europe’s largest airline. Ryanair is now on course to carry 67 million passengers in our full year.”
