RYANAIR : DEC TRAFFIC GROWS 20% TO 9.0M CUSTOMERS

RYANAIR DEC TRAFFIC GROWS 20%TO 9.0MCUSTOMERS

117M CUSTOMERS CARRIED DURING 2016

Ryanair, Europe's favourite airline, today (4 Jan) released December traffic statistics as follows:

• Traffic grew 20% to 9.0m customers.

• Load factor rose 3% points to 94%.

• Rolling annual traffic to Dec grew 15% to 117m customers.

	Dec 15	Dec 16	Change
Customers	7.5M	9.0M	+20%
Load Factor	91%	94%	+3%

Ryanair's Kenny Jacobssaid:

'Ryanair's December traffic grew by 20% to 9.0m customers, while our load factor jumped 3% points to 94%, on the back of lower fares in December and the continuing success of our 'Always Getting Better' customer experience programme.

Customers can look forward to even lower fares for summer 2017, so there's never been a better time to book a low fare flight on Ryanair and we urge all customers who wish to book their summer 2017 holidays to do so now on the Ryanair.com website or mobile app, where they can avail of the lowest fares in Europe.'

For further information

please contact:

Robin Kiely Piaras Kelly

Ryanair DAC Edelman Ireland

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