Ryanair: JAN TRAFFIC GROWS 25% TO 7.5M CUSTOMERS

ANNUAL TRAFFIC GROWS 17% TO 102.9MCUSTOMERS

Ryanair, Europe's favourite airline, today (4 Feb) released January traffic statistics as follows:

• Traffic grew 25% to 7.5m customers.
• Load factor rose 5% points to 88%.
• Rolling annual traffic to Jan grew 17% to 102.9m customers.

Ryanair's Kenny Jacobs said:

"Ryanair's January traffic grew by 25% to 7.5m customers, while our load factor jumped 5% points to 88%, thanks to Ryanair offering lower fares as part of our load factor active/yield passive policy.

These record monthly numbers and load factors are also due to the continuing success of our "Always Getting Better" customer experience programme, which continues to deliver stronger than expected forward bookings, traffic and load factors."