The big low cost carriers
increase
Written by Fju at 08/09 2010, 12:47 - 0 comments
The budget heavyweights collectively sold 12.88m seats in August, a rise of 10.5 percent year-on-year. Ryanair gained further market share by growing 12 percent to 7.88m against easyJet’s total of 5.2m, an increase of 8.4 percent.
However easyJet filled more of its seats achieving a 92.3 percent load factor, up 0.5 percent against Ryanair’s 89 percent, down from 90 percent a year ago.
Over the 12 month period easyJet has seen total passenger numbers rise 7.7 percent to 48.4m and the load factor rise 1.5 percent to 86.9 percent. Ryanair was up 13.6 percent to 70.9m but the load factor fell 8 percent to 82 percent. However the Ryanair figures included 1.45m passengers who were booked on flights but unable to fly because of Icelandic volcanic ash crisis.
