DUBLIN, July 4 (Reuters) – Ryanair (RYA.I) had its busiest month ever in June (RYA.I) because it flew 15.9 million passengers, up from simply 5.3 million a 12 months earlier and topping a earlier excessive set in Could.
Its load issue, which measures how nicely an airline is filling out there seats, reached 95% for the primary time for the reason that starting of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Irish airline, Europe’s largest by passenger numbers, mentioned it operated over 88,500 flights in June as its load issue rose from 92% a month earlier, when it flew 15.4 million passengers.
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Ryanair’s load issue commonly reached not less than 96% a month earlier than the pandemic and hit 97% in June 2019.
The low value airline expects to fly 15% extra passengers this summer season than in the identical season of 2019, and can carry a file 165 million passengers within the 12 months to March 2023.
It carried just below 100 million passengers within the 12 months to March 2022 and its pre-COVID file excessive was 149 million.
Ryanair mentioned final week that lower than 2% of its flights had been affected by an preliminary wave of strikes by cabin crew unions in Belgium, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy. learn extra
It added on Saturday that it anticipated “minimal (if any) disruption” from 12 extra strike days introduced by some Spain-based cabin crew for later this month. learn extra
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Reporting by Padraic Halpin; modifying by Jason Neely
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