Aer Lingus July passenger numbers up 4.3%
Aer Lingus, which is currently in the process of being bought by International Consolidated Airlines Group, carried 4.3% more passengers in July compared to the same month last year, according to traffic stats released by the Irish airline on Friday.
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Passenger numbers for July totalled 1.26m, up from 1.21m in 2014, with the company’s long-haul passenger numbers up 18.3% to 168,000.
Short haul routes carried 962,000, up 3.7% from 928,000 in July last year.
Meanwhile, the load factor, which measures the number of seats that were actually taken up on each flight, rose to 88.6% from 87.3% for both long and short haul flights.
Year-to-date, the airline has carried 6.45m passenger, up just 0.1% from last year’s numbers.
At 1128 BST, Aer Lingus shares were up 0.6% at 2.51p.