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RYANAIR HAS CLAIMED to be the first airline to carry more than 10 million international passengers in a month.
This comes in the company’s passenger figures for July, which saw an 11% increase in terms of the total number of passengers that flew with the company when compared with the same period a year before.
The company’s load factor, a measurement that looks at how efficiently an airline fills its seats, also grew in July, up to 95%.
Speaking about the increase, the company’s spokesperson, Kenny Jacobs took the opportunity to compare Ryanair’s figures with those of Aer Lingus, saying:
We carried more customers in one month (10.14 million in July) than Aer Lingus carried in a whole year (9.77 million in 2014).
“These record customer numbers and highest ever load factors are due to our lower fares, our stronger forward bookings and the continuing success of our “Always Getting Better” customer experience programme, which continues to deliver stronger than expected traffic and load factors on our biggest ever summer schedule,” he went on.
To put the passenger figures into context, two Ryanair’s major European rivals, Air France KLM and Easyjet, flew 7.13 million and 6.56 million passengers in the month of June of this year.
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And this guy O’Leary deserves every cent he earns. What an achievement.
What? Surely not, where are our AAA friends saying he is capitalist elite etc etc. Good on you Michael, keep up the good work!
Of course he is capitalist elite, but he’s also provided many jobs and doesn’t take govt bribes, keeps his nose relatively clean in that sense. The AAA are more interested in tax exempt Dennis o Brien getting illegal bribes to screw the people
Capitalism works when it is egalitarian.
By avoiding catering for privileged groups in their passengers, Ryanair is able to provide its service to all at an impressive fare.
It’s not luxury, but it is transport.
O’Leary for PM!!
Of the UK?
Yea have we abolished the title Taoiseach all of a sudden or something, when you hear Irish people saying things like this it’s no wonder people mistakenly think we’re still in the UK.
Ok. “T”. Wow.
Order, order, more aeroplanes!
Have got seriously cheap flights this year with them – 20 euro return to Manchester, 3 one way flights around Spain for 90 euro all in
Ten million passengers in one month he is doing something right.
Ha ha! The classic “I make in a month more than you make in a year” punch line to Aerlingus. Ryanair, Ireland’s national Airline
Only a handful of those passengers had anything to do with Ireland! Not exactly our national airline!
And still treats his staff like sh!t
fair dues to ryan air but leaving out what monies or not that are pumped into aer lingus, with them only having 51 active planes and Ryanair having about 400 basically 8 times the amount that it’s easy for Ryanair to be carrying millions more than Aer lingus. but O’Leary is some business man that nobody can deny!
Of course they fly many more passengers than AL since AL only flies to and from Ireland. It’s like comparing apples and pears. Would be more truthful if Ryanair stated how many they flew to/from Ireland when comparing making such outrageous claims.
If only AL had the business acumen to compete.
Ryanair is a lot younger than Aerlingus and they weren’t fed money by the government for 70 odd years. So you’re right not much of a comparison.
Damien if you read the title you might take more heed to the word “International”
Declan if you understood English you may know that Aer Lingus mostly only flies international flights!
€75 to fly to Spain €225 to fly back. no longer a low cost airline, far from it. city jet aer lings iberea express BA lufthanssa all cheaper when checking flights recently. cheap if you wanna go UK. that’s all for this month
@hrh. But could you imagine the price if al still had a monopoly?
Do you think that if Ryanair hadn’t started no other low cost airline would have? plenty of low cost airlines before RA.
Really HRH? Name some of them?
O’leary brought the low-cost model of Southwest airlines to Ireland under order of Tony Ryan, in effect creating Europes low-cost airline.
After Laker Airways had opened up the UK-Transatlantic routes.
Well done Ryanair. Going from strength to strength.
One Sh!t airline , flew with them twice to give them the benefit of doubt but no, cheap and nasty never again will I fly with them
Millions beg to differ…….it could be you.
Do tell John, was it that awful jingle they played when you arrived early that put you off them?….
O Leary won’t miss you if he is carrying 10 M in one month but Aer Lingus needs you to make up the most
Pain in the arse at times flying with them but the fares are brilliant. My gripe is not giving passengers booked together seats together unless they pay !!!!
that has changed
Booked 4 flights recently, with 5 friends, and was sat in a full row on each flight.
What a queue that was… lol.
Try the car hire on their website when you book a flight.Firefly car hire.Very deceiving part of the booking process.Lot of very angry Ryanair customers in Murcia airport last week complaining of them asking €700 credit card deposit,€325 charge if you get a puncture.Unless you take out their insurance which trebles your original price on the Ryanair website.
Ok.
Who’s fault is that Dave?
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