RYANAIR CARRIES MORE PASSENGERS THAN BRITISH AIRWAYS!

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RYANAIR CARRIES MORE PASSENGERS THAN BRITISH AIRWAYS’ WORLDWIDE TRAFFIC IN FEBRUARY

Ryanair, Europe’s largest low fares airline today (6th March) confirmed that it had carried more passengers than British Airways for a fourth time in February, proving that British Airways can’t match Ryanair’s prices, its punctuality and its “no fuel surcharge” guarantee.

In February, Ryanair carried 2.59M passengers, 70,000 more than British Airways’ entire worldwide traffic and almost 1M more than British Airways on its European routes.

The traffic figures also show that British Airways’ load factor of just 61% on its European routes (where it competes with Ryanair) lags 10 percentage points behind the rest of its network and worse still is 17 percentage points lower than Ryanair’s Europe wide load factor of 78%.

Peter Sherrard, Ryanair’s Head of Communications, said:

“These traffic statistics for February highlight what the travelling public has always known, namely wherever there is a choice between Ryanair and British Airways, passengers prefer Ryanair, the low fare, on-time airline, compared to British Airways, the high fare, usually late, fuel surcharging airline.

“Passengers want low fares and that is why Ryanair is now the World’s Favourite Airline. British Airways is failing because it can’t match Ryanair’s low fares and on-time performance”.