News: Ryanair overtake British Airways

Flights > News > # 547 (05/09/2005)

Ryanair has announced that it carried more passengers in one month than British Airways on its entire network for the first ever time.

The statistics for August published by both Ryanair and BA show that Ryanair carried 156,000 more passengers than BA’s entire network figure. Ryanair currently operates 250 routes across 21 countries and this year expects to carry 35 million passengers.

Ryanair’s CEO, Michael O’Leary said:

“Last month Ryanair’s traffic exceeded BA’s worldwide passengers across its entire network. Ryanair carried over 3.26 million passengers, an increase of 27% on the same period last year, while BA carried 3.10 million passengers on its entire worldwide network."

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