EasyJet reports rise in July traffic
EasyJet passenger numbers grew 9.4% in July to just over 7 million.
Meanwhile, load factor (percentage of available seats sold) grew 1.4 percentage points to 94.3%.
For the 12 months to end of July, passenger numbers grew 6.1% and load factor was up 1.2 percentage points to 91.4%.
The figures were released a day after Ryanair claimed it had become the first airline ever to carry more than 10 million international passengers in a single month after it saw a 11% jump in passenger numbers in July.
Ryanair carried 10.14 million passengers in July, compared with 9.15 million in July 2104.
Its load factor rose from 91% to 95%.
The rise boosted Ryanair’s rolling annual traffic by 15% to 95.3 million.
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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