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The load factor measures how well an airline is filling available seats (PA Images)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ryanair had its busiest month ever in June as it flew 15.9 million passengers, up from just 5.3 million a year earlier and topping a previous high set in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its load factor, which measures how well an airline is filling available seats, reached 95 per cent for the first time since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Irish airline, Europe’s largest by passenger numbers, said it operated over 88,500 flights in June as its load factor rose from 92 per cent a month earlier, when it flew 15.4 million passengers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryanair’s load factor regularly reached at least 96 per cent a month before the pandemic and hit 97 per cent in June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The low-cost airline expects to fly 15 per cent more passengers this summer than in the same season of 2019, and will carry a record 165 million passengers in the year to March 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It carried just under 100 million passengers in the year to March 2022 and its pre-Covid record high was 149 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ryanair said last week that less than 2 per cent of its flights were affected by an initial wave of strikes by cabin crew unions in Belgium, Spain, Portugal, France and Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It added on Saturday that it expected “minimal (if any) disruption” from 12 more strike days announced by some Spain-based cabin crew for later this month. – Reuters<\/strong><\/p>\n

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