WORLD'S FAVOURITE AIRLINE

Ryanair Holdings PLC
05 September 2005



            IT'S OFFICIAL - RYANAIR IS THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE AIRLINE
                AUGUST PASSENGER STATS BLOW BRITISH AIRWAYS AWAY

Ryanair, Europe's No. 1 low fares airline, today (Monday, 5th September 2005)
celebrated carrying more passengers in one month than British Airways on its
worldwide network for the first ever time. The statistics for August published
by both Ryanair and BA show that Ryanair carried 156,000 more passengers than
BA's entirenetwork figure. Ryanair currently operates 250 routes across 21
countries and this year will carry 35 million passengers.

Speaking this afternoon, Ryanair's CEO, Michael O'Leary said:

        'It's official - RYANAIR has today become the WORLD'S FAVOURITE AIRLINE!
        Last month Ryanair's traffic exceeded BA's worldwidepassengers across
        its entire network. Ryanair carried over 3.26 million passengers an
        increase of 27% on the same period last year, while BA carried 3.10
        million passengers on its entire worldwide network, as sales slumped by
        4% from BA's August 2004 traffic in the face of multiple fuel
        surcharges. (BA suffered flight disruptions in August 2004 as well as
        2005)

        'Ryanair's passenger volumes are growing rapidly thanks to new
        destinations, lowest ever fares, industry leading punctuality and
        customer service and Ryanair's guarantee of NO fuel surcharges, not
        today, not tomorrow, not ever. BA keep turning passengers away with fuel
        surcharge after fuel surcharge, high fares, poor punctuality, flight
        cancellations and no catering. At least on Ryanair, customers can buy a
        sandwich with £100 they have saved over BA's high fares.
        'That is why RYANAIR is now the WORLD'S FAVOURITE AIRLINE, and BA are
        now officially just the second choice'.

ENDS.                         Monday, 5th September 2005

For further information:

Peter Sherrard - Ryanair      Pauline McAlester - Murray Consultants
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