Ryanair carried nearly 6m passengers last month

Ryanair flew close to six million passengers across Europe last month, with 11% more seats filled than during the same four weeks last year.

The airline’s latest monthly traffic statistics, released yesterday, showed Ryanair carried 5.8m passengers during February. This was up by 1.3m, or nearly 29%, on the 4.5m it carried in the same month of last year.

Load factor for the month, which measures the level of seats filled rather than just sold, grew by 11% year-on-year and stood at 89%.