Ryanair passengers up 22%; to sue French union
03.06.08
Ryanair announced that it carried 22% more passengers in May compared to a year earlier, after adding routes and lowering fares. The airline said this is the first time any British or Irish airline has carried more than 5 million passengers in a month.
It carried 5.06 million passengers last month compared with 4.15 million a year earlier. Its load factor, a measure of the proportion of seats filled, was unchanged at 80%. In the 12 months to May 31 to the airline had 53.46m passengers with an average load factor of 81%.
Separately, Ryanair announced plans to sue French trade union Confederation General de Travail that took industrial action at Carcassonne Airport in the south of France between May 24 and May 26. The airline's deputy chief executive Michael Cawley said: ‘[It] was unlawful, unwarranted and caused considerable hardship for our passengers as well as significant costs for them and for the airline.'
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