Aer Lingus announced it carried 1.019 million passengers in September up 1.7%, the airline carried 97,000 long-haul passengers up 4.3% with a load factor of 90.7% up 3% on a 0.4% increase in capacity, and it carried 829,000 short-haul passengers down 1.4% with a load factor of 81.4% up 0.5% on a 0.9% decrease in capacity.
Aer Lingus Regional carried 93,000 passengers up 36.8% and year to date has carried 752,000 passengers. As usual figures exclude traffic on the United Airlines Joint-Venture Washington Dulles to Madrid route.
Compared to the Association of European Airlines (mainly so-called legacy carriers) as whole, the Aer Lingus passenger load factor was higher on short-haul routes (81.4% v 78.7%) and on North Atlantic routes (90.7% v. 87.9%). AEA short-haul traffic (RPK) was up 6.0% and North Atlantic up 3.3%.
Ryanair announced it carried 7.84 million passengers in September up 8% with a load factor of 84% down 1% and year to date has carried 79.07 million passengers.
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