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Ryanair reports jump in passengers despite cancellations
Ryanair grew passenger numbers by 8% to 11.8 million in October despite being forced to make cancellations due to a mess-up with pilot rostering.
Load factor rose 1% point to 96% for the month.
Rolling annual traffic to October grew 12% to 128.2 million customers.
Earlier this week the airline said it was on course to make a pre-tax profit of €1.40 billion to €1.45 billion this year despite having been forced to cancel 20,000 flights.
Around 700,000 passengers’ flights were cancelled or rescheduled, costing the airline an estimated €25 million.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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