Ryanair August Traffic, Load Factor Rise - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Irish low-cost airline Ryanair Holdings plc (RYA.L, RYAAY) announced that traffic for the month of August 2015 increased 10 percent to 10.4 million customers from 9.4 million customers in the same month of prior year.

Load factor for the monthly also improved 2 percentage points to 95 percent from last year's 93 percent.

Europe's favorite airline noted that the rolling annual traffic to August grew 15 percent to 96.3 million customers.

"These record monthly numbers and load factors are due to our lower fares, our stronger forward bookings and the continuing success of our "Always Getting Better" customer experience programme, which continues to deliver stronger than expected traffic and load factors on our biggest ever summer schedule," Chief Marketing Officer Kenny Jacobs said.

Looking ahead, Ryanair said customers can look forward to more service enhancements in the autumn, as it continues Year 2 of its AGB programme, which include a new car hire service, a new website, new app, new cabin interiors, new crew uniforms, and improved inflight menus.