Ryanair: 1st airline to carry 4m pax a month

Ryanair has confirmed that it had carried a record 4M passengers during the month of August, making Ryanair the first airline to carry more than 4M international passengers in 1 month. To mark this new record, Ryanair is giving away 4,000,000 FREE seats on its 371 European routes over the next seven days.

Ryanair now carries:

Almost the entire Irish population in 1 month
More passengers per month than British Airways’ 3M plus
Half of Aer Lingus’s annual 8M traffic in one month

Today Ryanair also announced more new routes and frequencies from Dublin to Europe for summer 2007. From February next, Ryanair will launch new routes from Dublin to Malta, Stockholm and the Canary Islands as well as increased (double) frequencies from Dublin to Berlin, Rome, Malaga and Faro. This will bring Ryanair’s leadership over Aer Lingus on routes from Dublin to Europe into line with routes from Dublin to the UK where Ryanair presently offers twice as many destinations as Aer Lingus.


NEW ROUTES FROM SUMMER 2007

DUBLIN - MALTA
DUBLIN - STOCKHOLM
DUBLIN - CANARY ISLANDS

INCREASED FREQUENCIES FROM SUMMER 2007

DUBLIN - BERLIN
Daily to double daily

DUBLIN - ROME
Daily to double daily

DUBLIN - MALAGA
5 per week to 8 per week

DUBLIN - FARO
3 per week to 7 per week

Speaking today, Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s CEO said: “For the lowest fares Ryanair is No.1 and when it comes to NO FARES, we leave other airlines on the ground. Other airlines might talk low fares, but only Ryanair actually delivers them and as this fantastic 4,000,000 FREE seat sale demonstrates - it's no fares!

“Our new routes and doubled frequencies from Dublin will extend Ryanair’s leadership over Aer Lingus. Where there is a choice passengers always prefer Ryanair’s low fare, on-time services to Aer Lingus’ high fare usually late flights. These new routes will replicate between Dublin and Europe the clear preference that Irish passengers and visitors have already shown for Ryanair over Aer Lingus between Ireland and the UK where choice has existed for many years. Aer Lingus’ inability to compete will consign it to a future role of high cost niche market regional carrier, as Ryanair strengthens its position as Ireland’s national airline”.

“There has never been a better time to snap up a FREE flight on any of Ryanair’s 371 routes for travel up until March 2007. Passengers who want to book a FREE flight should log on now to www.ryanair.com as these 4M FREE seats will not last long”.