easyJet's passenger numbers rise 10.6% in March

Budget airline easyJet reported 10.6% increase in passenger numbers for March.

Passenger numbers last month grew to 6.33m from 5.72m in March 2016, as the load factor – which gauges how full the planes actually are – rose 1.4 percentage points to 92.7%.

On a rolling 12-month basis, passenger numbers for the FTSE 100 company increased 7.3% to 75.93m and the load factor was up 0.2 percentage points to 91.7%.