Ryanair Holdings PLC RYANAIR DECEMBER TRAFFIC GROWS 9% TO 12.5M GUESTS (4168Y)

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Ryanair Holdings PLC

03 January 2024

RYANAIR DECEMBER TRAFFIC

GROWS 9% TO 12.5M GUESTS

Ryanair Holdings plc today (Wed, 3 Jan) released December 2023 traffic stats as follows:

 
            Dec 22   Dec 23   Change 
--------- 
  Guests    11.52m   12.54m     +9% 
           -------  -------  -------- 
 L. Fact     92%      91%     -1% pts 
           -------  -------  -------- 
 

Ryanair operated over 72,500 flights in Dec. Over 900 flights cancelled due to Israel/Gaza conflict.

 
 Rolling    Dec 22   Dec 23    Change 
  Guests    160.4m   181.8m     +13% 
           -------  -------  ---------- 
 L. Fact     92%      94%       +2% pts 
           -------  -------  ---------- 
 
 
 ENDS                Ryanair Press Office 
  For further info    Tel: [phone] 
  please contact:     [e-mail] 
 
 
 
              OTA Pirate Update: 
              In early Dec, most of the larger OTA Pirates (such as Booking.com, Kiwi, 
              Kayak, etc.) suddenly removed Ryanair's flights from sale on their websites. 
              This welcome removal may be the result of pressure from Consumer Protection 
              Agencies or a response to the recent Irish High Court ruling, which granted 
              Ryanair a permanent injunction against screenscraper Flightbox from unlawfully 
              scraping Ryanair.com content for OTA's, or in response to Ryanair's KYP 
              (Know Your Passenger) customer initiatives such as verification. 
              While these OTA Pirates only account for a small fraction of Ryanair's 
              bookings, we expect the sudden removal of our flights from these OTA websites 
              to reduce short term load factors by 1% or 2% in Dec and Jan and also to 
              soften short term yields as we respond by making more low fares available 
              directly to consumers. We do not expect this recent removal of OTA Pirate 
              bookings will materially affect our FY24 traffic or PAT guidance. 
              Ryanair will respond to this welcome removal of our flights from OTA Pirate 
              websites, by lowering fares where necessary to encourage all passengers 
              to book directly on Ryanair.com where they are guaranteed to always get 
              the lowest air fares without OTA Pirate overcharges, fake contact info, 
              or other pricing/refund scams. In the meantime, Ryanair continues to make 
              its fares available to honest/transparent OTA's such as Google Flights, 
              who do not add hidden mark ups to Ryanair prices and who direct passengers 
              to make their bookings directly on the Ryanair.com website. 
 

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