Boardroom Briefing

Bumper traffic at Ryanair

Ryanair’s February traffic grew 28 per cent to 7.4 million customers, up from 5.8 million last February.

Its load factor rose four points to 93 per cent, from 89 per cent last year. Meanwhile, rolling annual traffic to February grew 17 per cent to 104.6 million customers.

Ryanair spokesman Kenny Jacobs said: “These record monthly numbers and load factors are due to our lower fares, our stronger forward bookings ...