6th Mar 2006 11:51
Ryanair Holdings PLC06 March 2006 RYANAIR CARRIES MORE PASSENGERS THAN BRITISH AIRWAYS' WORLDWIDE TRAFFIC IN FEBRUARY Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline today (Monday, 6th March 2006)confirmed that it had carried more passengers than British Airways for a fourthtime in February, proving that British Airways can't match Ryanair's prices, itspunctuality and its "no fuel surcharge" guarantee. In February, Ryanair carried 2.59M passengers, 70,000 more than British Airways'entire worldwide traffic and almost 1M more than British Airways on its Europeanroutes. The traffic figures also show that British Airways' load factor of just 61% onits European routes (where it competes with Ryanair) lags 10 percentage pointsbehind the rest of its network and worse still is 17 percentage points lowerthan Ryanair's Europe wide load factor of 78%. Speaking today, Peter Sherrard, Ryanair's Head of Communications, said: "These traffic statistics for February highlight what the travelling public has always known, namely wherever there is a choice between Ryanair and British Airways, passengers prefer Ryanair, the low fare, on-time airline, compared to British Airways, the high fare, usually late, fuel surcharging airline. "Passengers want low fares and that is why Ryanair is now the World's Favourite Airline. British Airways is failing because it can't match Ryanair's low fares and on-time performance". Punctuality Av. AEA & FR Fuel surcharge Worldwide Pax Europe/UK Pax Europe/UK Fare stats FY (Europe/UK rtn) Feb 2006 Feb 2006 Load factor 2005 Feb 2006 Ryanair £ 28 90% NONE 2.59 M 2.59 M 78%BA £181 74% £16 2.52 M 1.61 M 61% Ends. Monday, 6th March 2006For further information:Peter Sherrard - Ryanair Pauline McAlester - Murray ConsultantsTel: 00 353 1 812 1228 Tel: 00 353 1 4980 300 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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