Ryanair traffic up 30% in January

Ryanair’s impressive winter performance continued last month with the airline yesterday reporting a 30% year-on-year rise in passenger numbers for January.

In all, Ryanair carried 5.98m people on its routes in the first month of the year, with load factor — measuring the amount of filled seats, rather than just sold ones —rising by 12% on the same month last year to 83%.

This followed on from a 20% annualised passenger increase in December (to just over 6m passengers) and an 88% load factor.