- Booked passengers up 14pc to 11.3m customers.
- 9th time that Ryanair have exceeded a million passengers in a month
- 37th successive monthly increase
- Load factor rose three points to 96pc
- Rolling annual traffic to April up 13pc to 121.3m
- Only SEVEN airlines have carried more than 1om in a month
Ryanair matched their passenger total for July 2016 with a stunning 11.3m passengers in April 2017.
It is Ryanair’s second busiest month ever behind August 2016, with the summer season about to begin. April is traditionally the seventh busiest month of the year in northern hemisphere aviation.
This is the ninth time that Ryanair have exceeded 10m passengers in a month and the 37th successive monthly increase recorded by the airline.
Rolling annual traffic to April is up 13pc to 121.3m. The airline is on course for 134m passengers in 2017 if the growth rate of 14pc is sustained: although 125m is a more likely target.
This compares with 10.1m and load factor of 95pc in July 2015 when Ryanair became the seventh airline to join the 10m in one month club a club which includes Delta, Southwest, China Southern, United, American Airlines. China Eastern and the original Aeroflot, which reached 10m passengers in one month in July 1970 and put in many more 10m months before the collapse of the Soviet Union, reaching 100m passengers a year in 1976.
- Watch here Michael O’Leary briefing for media in Dublin on Ryanair’s plans for 2017
