Bumper November for low-cost airlines
Ryanair grew passenger numbers by 21% to 7.71 million in November.
The airline’s load factors were up from 88% in November 2014 to 93% this year.
Rolling annual traffic to November grew 17% to 99.9 million customers.
Meanwhile, low-cost rival Wizz Air saw a 25% rise in passenger numbers to 1.48 million for the same month.
Load factors rose just slightly from 82.9% last November to 83.6%.
Rolling annual traffic was up 21.3% to 21.5 million.
During November, Wizz Air signed its largest ever lease agreement for 11 Airbus A321ceo aircraft and expanded its fleet to 64 aircraft with the arrival of its first A321ceo to its Budapest base in Hungary.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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