2nd Sep 2015 09:57
LONDON (Alliance News) - Irish low-cost airline Ryanair Holdings PLC on Wednesday said its customer traffic and load factor both improved in August as it announced the summer 2016 schedule for its flights from London's airports.
The company said it carried 10.4 million passengers in August, up 10% from the 9.4 million it carried a year earlier, while its load factor increased by 2 percentage points to 95% from 93%.
On a rolling 12-month basis to August, traffic was up by 15% to 96.3 million customers.
"Ryanair's August traffic grew by 10% to 10.4m customers, while our load factor jumped 2% points to 95%. These record monthly numbers and load factors are due to our lower fares, our stronger forward bookings and the continuing success of our 'Always Getting Better' customer experience programme, which continues to deliver stronger than expected traffic and load factors on our biggest ever summer schedule," said Chief Marketing Officer Kenny Jacobs.
The traffic statistics were published ahead of the release of Ryanair's schedule for its London airport operations for summer 2016, covering Stansted, Gatwick and Luton. The schedule includes new routes to and from Milan and Verona in Italy, Sofia in Bulgaria and Vilnius in Lithuania.
As part of the new routes to Milan Malpensa airport in Italy, Ryanair will open a new base at the airport in December this year, initially with one aircraft and operating four routes to Stansted, Comiso airport in Sicily, Bucharest in Romania and Seville in Spain. It will be its 15th base in Italy.
The airline will operate 5% more weekly flights from Stansted, 12% more from Gatwick and 13% more from Luton over the 2016 summer period.
Shares in Ryanair were up 1.9% to EUR12.35 on Wednesday.
By Sam Unsted; [email protected]; @SamUAtAlliance
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