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Ryanair flew a record number of passengers for the third month in a row in July, the low-cost carrier said on August 2, carrying 18.7 million passengers in what is generally one of its most profitable months of the year. That was up 11% on a year earlier, when a post-pandemic travel rebound was taking shape and beat the previous monthly record of 17.4 million passengers set in June. Flights were on average 96% full in June, the same as a year earlier.
Heathrow, the busiest hub in western Europe, reported pretax profit up 6% to 279 million pounds ($360 million) in the first six months of the year, on a 42% rise in passenger numbers to 37 million. That number was driven by more flights to and from destinations worldwide, helped by the reopening of China and soaring demand for transatlantic travel.
The Irish airline, Europe‘s largest by passengers carried, expects traffic in its financial year to March 2024 to grow by 9%, to around 183.5 million passengers. It lowered that forecast last month from 185 million due to delays in Boeing plane deliveries and air traffic control strikes which Ryanair said forced it to cancel over 800 flights last month.
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