RECORD MONTHLY PASSENGER TRAFFIC FOR RYANAIR

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News Release
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04.05.06
RECORD MONTHLY PASSENGER TRAFFIC FOR RYANAIR

Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 low fares airline, today (4th May 2006) celebrated its highest ever monthly passenger traffic with a record 3.44 M passengers in April, a 29% increase on 2005.

Announcing the record passenger traffic, Peter Sherrard Ryanair’s Head of Communications said:

“In the single month of April 2006, Ryanair carried more passengers than it did during the whole 12 months of 1997. Ryanair now operates 332 routes to and from 117 airports across 22 countries and there is no better proof of Ryanair’s popularity than passenger growth throughout Europe.

“Ryanair is growing while British Airways, Lufthansa and Air France all stagnate in Europe because passengers want Ryanair’s low fare, on time and efficient services and they know they will not find these with the high fare usually late, fuel surchargers”.