Ryanair Monthly Passenger Numbers up 2% to 21 Million

Passengers wait to board an aircraft of low cost Irish airline Ryanair at Treviso's Antonio Canova airport on March 17, 2024. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

Ryanair has reported a 2%, year-on-year, increase in passenger numbers for August – with the airline carrying a total of 21 million passengers last month.

Latest monthly operational figures show Ryanair’s load factor – a metric which shows how full an airline’s planes are – was 96%.

Ryanair operated more than 114,000 flights in August. On a rolling 12-month basis – from August to August – Ryanair carried 203.6 million passengers, up 6%.

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary