Ryanair records busiest month ever in June, load factor hits 95%

Ryanair had its busiest month ever in June as it flew 15.9m passengers, up from just 5.3m a year earlier and topping a previous high set in May. Its load factor, which measures how well an airline is filling available seats, reached 95% for the first time since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Irish airline, Europe's largest by passenger numbers, said it operated over 88,500 flights in June as its load factor rose from 92% a month earlier, when it flew 15.4m passengers. Ryanair's load factor regularly reached at least 96% a month before the pandemic and hit 97% in June 2019. The low cost airline expects to fly 15% more passengers this summer than in the same season of 2019, and will carry a record 165m passengers in the year to March 2023. It carried just under 100m passengers in the year to March 2022 and its pre-COVID record high was 149m.<br/>