LONDON (Alliance News) - easyJet PLC on Thursday reported growth in passengers carried in January but a small decline in load factor, while rival budget carrier Ryanair Holdings PLC posted an increase in both customer traffic and load factor.
easyJet said the number of passengers carried rose 6.3% to 4.3 million in January from 4.0 million in the same month the year before, but load factor decreased very slightly by 0.1 of a percentage point to 85.0% from 85.1%.
On a rolling 12-month basis, passengers carried increased 7.2% to 70.1 million from 65.3 million, while load factor grew by 0.8 of a percentage point to 91.6% from 90.8%.
Irish carrier Ryanair said customer traffic grew by a quarter in January to 7.5 million from 6.0 million, as load factor increased by 5 percentage points to 88.0% from 83.0%.
Rolling annual traffic was up 17% to 102.9 million customers.
On Wednesday, International Consolidated Airlines Group said both group traffic and load factor rose in January. Group traffic, measured in revenue passenger kilometres, grew 12% year-on-year to 17.3 million from 15.5 million, while load factor increased by 1.7 percentage points to 78.7% from 77.0%.
By Karolina Kaminska; karolinakaminska@alliancenews.com @KarolinaAllNews
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