EUROPE. Ryanair’s passenger traffic grew by +19% year-on-year in July to 6.7 million passengers – a new monthly record for Europe’s largest low fares airline.
Ryanair claimed that its continued growth “underlines that passengers during this recession are increasingly switching from high fare, fuel surcharging flag carriers, such as Air France, BA, Lufthansa and Aer Lingus,” to Ryanair’s “lowest fares and no fuel surcharge guarantee”.
Ryanair spokesman Daniel de Carvalho said: “Ryanair continues to grow traffic strongly each month as passengers switch to Ryanair’s lowest fares and no fuel surcharge guarantee over the high fares and unfair fuel surcharges being levied by many of our competitors.
“Ryanair carried +19% more passengers this July than last year and Ryanair now carries almost three times BA’s worldwide recent traffic.”
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