Ryanair passengers up 12%
08.01.10
Ryanair carried 4.9 million passengers in December, up 12% from the same month last year. Its load facto rose by 2 percentage points to 81%. In 2009 the budget airline carried 65.3 million passengers, an increase of 13% on 2008.
The airline, which recently announced that it had given up on a plan to buy more Boeing planes, said annual spending on planes will fall from €1.2 billion in the current fiscal year to around €100 million in the year ending March 2013. At that point, it plans to start to return excess cash to shareholders.
Ryanair also ruled out a third attempt to take over fellow Irish carrier Aer Lingus. The airline said in a statement: ‘There is no truth or basis to recent Irish media speculation that Ryanair is preparing a third bid for Aer Lingus. In the absence of any decision by the Irish government to sell its 25% stake, a third bid by Ryanair remains highly unlikely.'
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