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03/07/2009
High Flying Airline Hits 60 million
There was good news from Ryanair today as last month's figures were revealed.
It carried 5.84 million passengers - a figure that is up substantially on the 5.17 million it airlifted in June 2008 - and that's not all the 'no-frills airline' has been celebrating today.
Ryanair has also carried a record 60 million passengers in the 12 months to the end of June.
That's according to new figures released today which confirmed that passenger numbers in June increased by 13% compared to the same month a year earlier.
The airline said it expects that by the end of its full-year it will have carried 67 million passengers.
Overall too, the load factor, which represents the number of seats filled on each aircraft, rose too, although only by one per cent over the year up rom 84 to 85%, Ryanair said.
(BMcC/JM)
It carried 5.84 million passengers - a figure that is up substantially on the 5.17 million it airlifted in June 2008 - and that's not all the 'no-frills airline' has been celebrating today.
Ryanair has also carried a record 60 million passengers in the 12 months to the end of June.
That's according to new figures released today which confirmed that passenger numbers in June increased by 13% compared to the same month a year earlier.
The airline said it expects that by the end of its full-year it will have carried 67 million passengers.
Overall too, the load factor, which represents the number of seats filled on each aircraft, rose too, although only by one per cent over the year up rom 84 to 85%, Ryanair said.
(BMcC/JM)
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