Ryanair poised to overtake BA as biggest UK airline
Ryanair is poised to become the biggest airline in the UK, overtaking British Airways. Ryanair could soon have a reasonable claim to the title of Britain’s favourite airline – with new figures showing it could overtake BA in terms of size by 2018. According to aviation analysts OAG, BA had 25m seats available on routes to and from UK airports in 2016, while Ryanair had 22m. However, the Ryanair had grown its capacity by 13% since 2015, while BA had increased its by just 4%. EasyJet had 19m. When considering load factor, Ryanair was leading the way, reporting an average monthly load of 94%. BA had just 81%, according to data from IAG. In terms of destinations, Ryanair serves 192 in 32 countries, next to BA’s 183 in 78, while BA has a fleet size of 268 next to Ryanair’s 366. <br/>
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Ryanair poised to overtake BA as biggest UK airline
Ryanair is poised to become the biggest airline in the UK, overtaking British Airways. Ryanair could soon have a reasonable claim to the title of Britain’s favourite airline – with new figures showing it could overtake BA in terms of size by 2018. According to aviation analysts OAG, BA had 25m seats available on routes to and from UK airports in 2016, while Ryanair had 22m. However, the Ryanair had grown its capacity by 13% since 2015, while BA had increased its by just 4%. EasyJet had 19m. When considering load factor, Ryanair was leading the way, reporting an average monthly load of 94%. BA had just 81%, according to data from IAG. In terms of destinations, Ryanair serves 192 in 32 countries, next to BA’s 183 in 78, while BA has a fleet size of 268 next to Ryanair’s 366. <br/>
