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Irish Mirror
Irish Mirror
National
Edel Hughes

Ryanair's traffic plummeted by 97% in June to just 0.4m passengers

Ryanair's traffic plummeted by a staggering 97% in June, the company revealed this morning.

The budget airline announced that it only carried 0.4m guests on just over 2,800 scheduled flights last month.

It had a budget to operate a whopping 79, 600 flights but Covid-19 restrictions forced airlines to cut back massively.

The numbers represent a huge plunge from the 14.2m passengers who travelled with the Ryanair Group in June 2019.

Data released by Ryanair show 13.6m passengers travelled with Ryanair and 0.6m with Lauda in the same period last year.

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However, the company has still carried 107.2m passengers so far this year, down only 27% from the same period in 2019.

Ryanair say 95% of their June 2020 flights arrived on time.

Yesterday, Ryanair Chief Executive Eddie Wilson slammed Ireland's "out of step" travel advice as the company resumed flights.

He told RTE's Morning Ireland: "We've got to get the balance of public health and restoring business as normal.

"And we're following the European Centre for Disease Control rules on compliance and getting confidence back in travel."

Mr Wilson also pointed out that every other European country is operating flights and the UK were due to announce air corridors.

"The only country that’s out of step is Ireland", he said.

"Telling people they can't travel at all and what it seems is open-ended forever is just disproportionate."

He added: "We're back in the air today because we want to fly and we want to return to normal. You don't have a business by cancelling flights.

"You have a business by being open for business and flying your passengers.

"We have a thousand flights today and people want to get back travelling and they're going to do it sensibly."

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