Ryanair Posts 4% Passenger Growth for May

LISBON, PORTUGAL - FEBRUARY 01: Ryanair Group CEO Michael O'Leary gives thumbs-up celebrating the company's results during a press conference on February 01, 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal. Ryanair announced more routes and airplanes to serve them in the country. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Ryanair carried 19.6 million passengers across its extensive route network in May, latest monthly operational figures for the airline show.

The May passenger total represented a 4% increase when measured on a year-on-year basis.

Load factor – which measures how full planes are – was 95%.

Ryanair operated more than 108,000 flights last month.

On a rolling 12-month basis – from May 2024 to May 2025 – Ryanair saw an 8% like-for-like jump in passengers to 202 million people, with a load factor of 94%.