Ryanair Reports 8% Passenger Growth for December

Ryanair Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft flying on final approach, landing and taxiing at Eindhoven Welschap airport EIN arriving from Malaga Spain the flight with route number FR2575. The new advanced airplane Boeing 737-8200 MAX of the Irish budget airline has the registration EI-HEN and is powered by 2x CFMI jet engines. Ryanair is an Ultra Low Cost carrier with headquarters in Dublin, Ireland and since 2016 is largest airline by international passenger in the world. Eindhoven, the Netherlands on July 19, 2023 (Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Ryanair carried 13.6 million passengers across its route network in December, latest monthly traffic numbers for the airline show.

Ryanair’s CEO Michael O’Leary

That total was 8% up on a year-on-year basis, while load factor – a measure of how full an airline’s planes are – edged higher, to 93%. On a rolling 12-month basis, passenger numbers were also up by 8% to 197.2 million.

Ryanair operated more than 77,380 flights during December.