6th Mar 2014 07:52
LONDON (Alliance News) - Europe's largest low-cost carriers, Ryanair Holdings PLC and easyJet PLC, both reported continued growth in passenger numbers in February, while passenger numbers declined at Irish carrier Aer Lingus Group PLC.
Ryanair, Europe's largest low-cost carrier said it flew 4.5 million customers in February, up 7% from 4.2 million a year earlier, bringing the total number of people it has carried in the year to the end of February to 81.9 million, up 3% on the previous 12 months.
The carrier's load factor, a measure of how full its planes are, also increased to 78$%, from 77%, while the figure for the 12 months period was 83%.
Big rival easyJet said it carried 4.2 million passengers in February, up 2.9% from 4.1 million a year earlier, bringing its total for the rolling 12 month period to 61.6 million, up 3.5% from 59.5 million. Its load factor for February rose to 90.7%, from 90.5%, while the figure for the rolling 12 months was 89.4%, up from 89.2%.
Aer Lingus, meanwhile, said passenger numbers fell to 558,000 in February, from 575,000 a year earlier, while traffic measured in revenue passenger kilometres fell to 737 million, from 740 million. Its passenger numbers for the year to end-February are down 1.6% at 1.1 million.
Its load factor also fell 1.0% in February to 67.3% as capacity rose 1.2%. Load factor for the year to end-February was up 0.5 points at 66.9%.
By Steve McGrath; [email protected]; @stevemcgrath1
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