Ryanair passenger numbers up 15% in November

Budget airline Ryanair posted a jump in traffic for November as the load factor pushed higher.

Passenger numbers rose 15% compared to the same month last year to 8.8m as the load factor – which gauges how full the planes are – nudged up to 95% from 93%.

Chief marketing officer Kenny Jacobs said: “Ryanair’s November traffic grew by 15% to 8.8m customers, on the back of lower fares and the continuing success of our ‘Always Getting Better’ customer experience programme.

“Customers can look forward to even lower fares when they make advance bookings for summer 2017, so there's never been a better time to book a low fare flight on Ryanair and we urge all customers who wish to book their summer 2017 holidays to do so now on the Ryanair.com website or mobile app, where they can avail of the lowest fares in Europe."