Christmas travel boom boosts Ryanair’s passenger numbers to 11.5m via IrishTimesBiz
The airline, which expects to fly 166.5 million passengers in its current fiscal year to the end of March, operated over 65,000 flights in December, it said on Wednesday. Photograph: PA Wires/PA ImagesRyanair flew a total of 11.5 million passengers last month, an increase of almost 3 per cent on its previous December record as Christmas traffic volumes rebounded sharply compared with the first two years of the pandemic.
The airline, which expects to fly 166.5 million passengers in its current fiscal year to the end of March, operated over 65,000 flights in December, it said on Wednesday. Passenger volumes were 21 per cent ahead of last year and 11 per cent ahead of December when Ryanair carried just 1.5 million customers due to pandemic-related restrictions on travel.
Last month’s passenger traffic levels were also some 2.6 per cent ahead of December 2019 when 11.2 million customers travelled with the airline.
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