Over 12m fly Ryanair in July

Ryanair has reported record traffic levels for July, becoming the first European airline to carry over 12m customers in a single month.

The airline said traffic in July grew 11% to 12.6m customers, while load factor — a measure of how full a plane is — rose 1% to 97%. Rolling annual traffic to July grew 13% to over 125m customers.

Ryanair added that it became the first airline in the EU to surpass the one billion passenger mark in July.