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Date: Tuesday 07 Oct 2008

LONDON (ShareCast) - Nearly 1m people took flights with Aer Lingus in September as travellers continued taking advantage of cheap flights to European destinations.

The Irish low-cost airline flew 992,000 passengers during the month, compared with 889,000 in September 2007.

The number of short-haul passengers rose to 814,000 from 781,000 but the number of long-haul passengers flown stayed flat at 108,000.

Load factor – how full the airlines planes were – slipped by 4.3% to 79.8% as the airline lifted its capacity by 16.7% between the two periods.

Budget airlines EasyJet and Ryanair have also recently reported a rise in traffic over September, but British Airways carried about 2.8m passengers during the month compared with about 2.96m in the same month last year, a drop of 5.6%.

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