Aer Lingus announced it carried 1.116 million passengers in August up 2.2%. The airline carried 103,000 long-haul passengers up 7.3% with a load factor 93.2% up 4% and on short-haul it carried 906,000 passengers down 1.2% with a load factor 84.6% up 1.2%. Aer Lingus Regional carried 107,000 passengers up 35.4% and year to date 658,000 passengers.
The figures as usual exclude traffic carried on the United Airlines Joint-Venture Washington Dulles-Madrid route.
Compared to the Association of European Airlines (mainly so-called legacy carriers) as whole, the Aer Lingus passenger load factor was higher on short-haul routes (84.6% v 79.0%) and on North Atlantic routes (93.2% v. 90.1%). AEA short-haul traffic (RPK) was up 5.0% and North Atlantic up 5.4%.
Ryanair announced that it carried a record 8.9 million passengers in August up 9% with a loaf factor of 88% down 1% and year to date it has carried 78.84 million passengers. This was Ryanair’s highest-ever monthly traffic figure and the second month this year that Ryanair has carried over 8m passengers.
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