Passenger numbers up at Aer Lingus and wider IAG group
Aer Lingus recorded an 8% rise in the number of passengers it carried last month versus March 2018. The airline, which is now owned by International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), carried 880,000 passenger in March, as against 815,000 for the same month a year earlier. Load factor rose by 0.8 percentage points during that period to 81.3. For the year-to-date, passenger numbers were up 7.5% to 2.2m with load factor down 1.5 percentage points to 73.3. IAG said it carried 5.7% more passengers overall last March. Passenger volumes rose to 9.2m from 8.6m while load factor rose by 0.6 percentage points to 83.7%. IAG traffic in March, as measured in revenue passenger kilometres, increased by 5.1% versus the same period a year ago Capacity measured in available seat kilometres increased 4.4%.<br/>
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Passenger numbers up at Aer Lingus and wider IAG group
Aer Lingus recorded an 8% rise in the number of passengers it carried last month versus March 2018. The airline, which is now owned by International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), carried 880,000 passenger in March, as against 815,000 for the same month a year earlier. Load factor rose by 0.8 percentage points during that period to 81.3. For the year-to-date, passenger numbers were up 7.5% to 2.2m with load factor down 1.5 percentage points to 73.3. IAG said it carried 5.7% more passengers overall last March. Passenger volumes rose to 9.2m from 8.6m while load factor rose by 0.6 percentage points to 83.7%. IAG traffic in March, as measured in revenue passenger kilometres, increased by 5.1% versus the same period a year ago Capacity measured in available seat kilometres increased 4.4%.<br/>
