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Passenger numbers growth across Ryanair flights

Budget airline operator Ryanair says its number of passengers grew by 300,000 in May, thanks partly to its introduction of a free piece of hand luggage on flights.

The firm also announced a 3 point rise in its ‘load factors’ - the amount of passengers it can accommodate across its services.

Ryanair’s chief marketing officer, Kenny Jacobs said: “Ryanair traffic grew by 300,000 to 8.2m customers in May, thanks to the continuing success of our lower fares and our improving customer experience, including our great new website, allocated seating, a free 2ndsmall carry-on bag and PED (portable electric device) use on all flights.

“Ryanair continues to deliver so much more than just the lowest fares for our 82.3 million customers.

“We are especially pleased with the 3% point improvement in May load factor, which is slightly ahead of our 2% point growth target.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Tom Keighley .