Ryanair's July Traffic Grows

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Ryanair Holdings PLC

05 August 2008

 



RYANAIR'S JULY TRAFFIC GROWS 19% 

LOWEST FARES AIRTRAVEL GROWING RAPIDLY

Ryanair, Europe's largest low fare airlines today (Tuesday, 5th August 2008) announced that it carried almost 5.2 million passengers in July, a 19% (900,000 passenger) increase when compared to July 2007.

Ryanair is confident that traffic growth will remain strong as Ryanair continues to offer passengers the guaranteed lowest airfares and no fuel surcharges this winter.  These strong growth figures prove that low fares travel is growing rapidly as competitors raise their high fares and fuel surcharges.

Stephen McNamara, Head of Communications, said:

'Ryanair's latest passenger figures show that we are rapidly growing passenger numbers this year. The most significant thing about today's figures is that we carried over 15million passengers in the last three months.  Passengers are increasingly attracted to Ryanair's  guaranteed lowest fares and our promise of no fuel surcharges ever'.

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

	Jul 07	Jul 08	Increase	12 mth to Jul 08
Passengers (m) 1	4.76m	5.66m	19%	54.19m
Load Factor 2	90%	89%	-1%	81%

• Represents the number of booked seats flown by Ryanair. 

• Represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of seats available for passengers. 

Ends.                                             Tuesday, 5th August 2008

For further information:

Stephen McNamara - Ryanair        Pauline McAlester - Murray Consultants

Tel: [phone]                 Tel: [phone]

 

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