Ryanair takes record 1 million bookings in just one week

Ryanair, Europe's largest low fares airline announced that it had taken a record 1,000,000 bookings between the 5th and the 11th of January. This is the first time Ryanair has sold more than 1M seats in a week and makes Ryanair the first European low fares airline to do so.

Announcing the record week of business, Peter Sherrard Ryanair's Head of Communications said: "All last week the www.ryanair.com servers were going into overdrive to cope with record bookings for our 5 million free seat sale.

"This is the first time Ryanair has taken more than 1M bookings in a week and sets us well on our way to carrying more than 50M passengers over the coming year. Ryanair's 5M free seat sale continues until midnight 18th January and with so many free seats we expect record bookings next week too".

Booking Period: Until midnight 18th Jan
Travel Period: 18 Jan 07 - 24 Mar 07
Applicable Days: Mon - Thurs & Sat Subject To Availability
Blackout Periods: 09/02/07 to 19/02/07 ex UK
16/02/07 to 27/02/07 ex Irl
15/03/07 to 20/03/07 ex Irl

*Excludes taxes and charges