RYANAIR GROWS TO 58 MILLION P

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Ryanair Holdings PLC

06 January 2009

 



RYANAIR GROWS TO 58 MILLION PASSENGERS IN 2008

8 MILLION ADDITIONAL PASSENGERS OPT FOR RYANAIR'S GUARANTEED LOWEST FARES AND NO FUEL SURCHARGES

Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline, today (Tuesday, 6th January 2009) announced that it carried almost 58 million passengers in the calendar year 2008, an increase of over 8 million passengers (18%) on its 2007 traffic. Ryanair capped off an extraordinary year of growth by carrying 4.4 million passengers in December, an 11% increase over December 2007.

Ryanair carried over 5 million passengers in one month for the first time in May while  August was Ryanair's busiest month with over 5.7million passengers snapping up one of its guaranteed lowest fares and no fuel surcharges seats.

Ryanair called on passengers to continue to take advantage of its guaranteed lowest fares and no fuel surcharges by securing one of its 1MILLION €5 seats which are available for booking on www.ryanair.com until Sunday midnight, for travel in January, February and March.

Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said:

'Ryanair continues to attract millions of passengers with our guaranteed lowest fares and no fuel surcharges while also delivering Europe's number one on time performance, fewest lost bags and least cancelled services. We are delighted with our 8 million traffic growth in 2008 and aim to carry over 65 million passengers in 2009 as more passengers chose Ryanair's guaranteed lowest fares in tougher economic times.  

'Ryanair's 1 Million €5 flights for travel in January, February and March are sure to be snapped up so we urge passengers to log on to www.ryanair.com and continue to take part in the travel revolution which has seen millions of passengers turn their back on high cost, fuel surcharging airlines with dismal service performance and opt for Ryanair's guaranteed lowest fares, no fuel surcharges and unrivalled performance'.

The following are Ryanair's passenger and load factor statistics for December 2008:

	Dec 07	Dec 08	Increase	12 mth to 31 Dec 08
Passengers (m) 1	3.95m	4.37m	+11%	57.7M
Load Factor 2	79%	79%	-	81.5%

• Represents the number of earned seats flown by Ryanair. 

• Represents the number of pax as a proportion of total seats available to pax. 

Ends.                                             Tuesday, 6th January 2009

For further information:

Stephen McNamara                     Pauline McAlester

Ryanair                                        Murray Consultants

Tel: [phone]                Tel: [phone]

 

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