RYANAIR: Four Times Bigger Than British Airways Ryanair's Oct Traffic Up 15% To 6.2m

Ryanair, the World's favourite airline, today (6th Nov) announced that it carried four times the UK and Europe short-haul traffic of British Airways (once the World's favourite airline) in October as 6.2m passengers travelled throughout Europe on Ryanair's guaranteed lowest fares (up 15%) while BA's short haul (UK and Europe) traffic fell by 4% to just 1.6m passengers.

Ryanair celebrated its continued growth and leadership over BA by releasing 1million GBP5 seats for travel in late November and December which are available at www.ryanair.com until 24:00hrs Monday (9th Nov).

Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said: "Ryanair continues to grow rapidly during the recession as passengers switch to Ryanair's guaranteed lowest fares from BA's high fares and unjustified fuel surcharges. Ryanair's traffic grew by 15% in Oct to 6.2million while BA's comparable traffic fell by 4% to just 1.6 million. Ryanair now carries four times BA's traffic in the UK and Europe, their most important market. Ryanair will continue to grow and attract BA passengers because Ryanair will continue to lower fares.

"To celebrate our increased leadership over what used to be the world's favourite airline, but is now not even the UK's favourite, we are releasing 1m GBP5 seats for travel in late November and December which are available at www.ryanair.com until midnight Monday (9thNov)."

CONTACT: Stephen McNamara, Ryanair Ltd Tel: +353 1 8121212 Pauline McAlester, Murray Consultants Tel: +353 1 4980300

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