AAirlines

Ryanair expects to beat monthly passenger record in August

Follow us on social media and always stay updated

Ryanair expects traffic in August to “slightly” surpass the record 18.7 million passengers it flew in July, with bookings for September and October so far coming in exactly as expected, a senior executive told Reuters on Monday.

The Irish airline, Europe’s largest by passenger numbers, carried a record number of monthly passengers in May, June and July and expects a post-pandemic travel rebound to push traffic for its financial year to March 2024 9% higher year-on-year.

“It should be slightly more (than July)… people are still travelling,” said Eddie Wilson, the head of Ryanair DAC, the largest airline in the group.

Ryanair cautioned late last month that fares for passengers booking close to their departure dates softened in late June and early July.

→ Ryanair earns 663 million in its first fiscal quarter, up 290%

However, Wilson said those comments were “blown out of proportion” and that the budget carrier’s guidance for a low double-digit percentage rise in fares this quarter was unchanged.

Ryanair trimmed its full-year passenger forecast last month to 183.5 million passengers from 185 million due to the impact of air traffic control strikes and potential further Boeing delivery delays.

Wilson said on Monday that Ryanair had now received all its new aircraft for this summer and was happy with the schedule Boeing has provided for the next tranche of deliveries from October.

“At the moment we have an agreed timetable. We don’t anticipate any delays but we have had problems in the past so we’ll review it closer in,” he said.

Plataforma Informativa de Aviación Comercial con 13 años de trayectoria.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

— Previous article

Aena's airports in Spain recorded record passenger traffic in July
Next article —

Emirates to increase its flights to London-Heathrow