Ryanair Carries Record 9 Million Passengers In August

Ryanair, Europe’s only ultra-low cost carrier (ULCC), today (5 Sept) released its passenger and load factor statistics for August 2013:

Traffic increased by 1% to over 9m passengers.
First European airline ever to carry 9m passengers in one month.
Annual traffic to end August grew 2% to over 80m passengers.
Load factor increased 1% to 89%.
Ryanair carries 9m passengers in a month, Aer Lingus carries 9m in a year!