More Passengers than BA

Ryanair Holdings PLC
06 March 2006



   RYANAIR CARRIES MORE PASSENGERS THAN BRITISH AIRWAYS' WORLDWIDE TRAFFIC IN
                                    FEBRUARY

Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline today (Monday, 6th March 2006)
confirmed that it had carried more passengers than British Airways for a fourth
time in February, proving that British Airways can't match Ryanair's prices, its
punctuality and its 'no fuel surcharge' guarantee.

In February, Ryanair carried 2.59M passengers, 70,000 more than British Airways'
entire worldwide traffic and almost 1M more than British Airways on its European
routes.

The traffic figures also show that British Airways' load factor of just 61% on
its European routes (where it competes with Ryanair) lags 10 percentage points
behind the rest of its network and worse still is 17 percentage points lower
than Ryanair's Europe wide load factor of 78%.

Speaking today, Peter Sherrard, Ryanair's Head of Communications, said:

        'These traffic statistics for February highlight what the travelling
        public has always known, namely wherever there is a choice between
        Ryanair and British Airways, passengers prefer Ryanair, the low fare,
        on-time airline, compared to British Airways, the high fare, usually
        late, fuel surcharging airline.

        'Passengers want low fares and that is why Ryanair is now the World's
        Favourite Airline. British Airways is failing because it can't match
        Ryanair's low fares and on-time performance'.

                Punctuality                                   
          Av.    AEA & FR    Fuel surcharge   Worldwide Pax   Europe/UK Pax   Europe/UK 
          Fare   stats FY    (Europe/UK rtn)   Feb 2006        Feb 2006      Load factor  
                   2005                                                        Feb 2006

Ryanair  £ 28        90%          NONE          2.59 M          2.59 M            78%
BA       £181        74%           £16          2.52 M          1.61 M            61%


Ends.                        Monday, 6th March 2006
For further information:
Peter Sherrard - Ryanair     Pauline McAlester - Murray Consultants
Tel: [phone]       Tel: [phone]



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