Ryanair
yesterday (17 June) welcomed confirmation from IATA that Ryanair
remains the world’s favourite airline after IATA’s 2012 World
Airline Transport Statistics showed Ryanair once again carried more
international passengers than any other airline.
Ryanair
carried 79.6m international passengers last year, almost 29m more
than second-placed Lufthansa (50.8m) and 35m more than third-placed
EasyJet (44.6m).
Indeed,
Ryanair carried more international passengers than:
· EasyJet
and British Airways combined (75.8m)
· Air
France, KLM , Iberia and Alitalia combined (79.3m)
· Lufthansa
and Air Berlin combined (74m)
· and
8 times more passengers than Irish regional carrier Aer Lingus (9.6m)
Ryanair
will carry more than 81.5m passengers this year and celebrated being
the world’s favourite airline by launching a 100,000 seat sale at
prices starting from just €22.99 for travel across its entire
European network on Mon, Tues, Wed and Thur in July and August, which
are available for booking until midnight Thur, 20 June.
Ryanair’s
Robin Kiely said:
“IATA
has once again confirmed that Ryanair is the world’s favourite
airline with more international scheduled passengers than any other
carrier. Even the combined traffic of EasyJet and BA is still less
than Ryanair’s total, confirming that passengers can’t get enough
of Ryanair’s guaranteed lowest fares, no fuel surcharges and number
one customer service.
To
celebrate being the world’s favourite airline, we are launching a
100,000 seat sale at prices starting from just €22.99 for travel
across Europe in July and August, which must be booked on
www.ryanair.com by midnight Thursday, 20th June.”Source: IATA World Air Transport Statistics 2012
