easyJet passengers up 15.9%; load factor down 0.4%
06.06.08
easyJet reported passengers up 15.9% in May, but its load factor dropped by 0.4 percentage points. This compares to passengers up 22% and a stable load factor (at 80%) in the same month at budget rival Ryanair.
easyJet transported 3.878m passengers in May (Ryanair had 5.06m), up 15.9% on the 3.345m carried in May of last year. However the load factor eased to 83.2% from 83.6% in May of last year.
In the 12 months to the end of May the number of passengers rose 15.2% to 40.6m from 35.2m in the12 months to May 2007 (Ryanair carried 52.46m). The rolling 12-month load factor also fell, to 83.2%, from 84%.
The higher passenger numbers reflect the expansion of easyJet's route network and the acquisition of GB Airways on January 31. No figured were provided for the split between organic and acquired growth.
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