Ryanair: IATA Confirms Ryanair Is The World’s Favourite Airline
Source: Ryanair
17/06/2013
Ryanair today (17 June) welcomed confirmation from IATA that Ryanair remains the world’s favourite airline after IATA’s 2012 World Airline Transport Statistics showed Ryanair once again carried more international passengers than any other airline.
Ryanair carried 79.6m international passengers last year, almost 29m more than second-placed Lufthansa (50.8m) and 35m more than third-placed EasyJet (44.6m).
Indeed, Ryanair carried more international passengers than:
· EasyJet and British Airways combined (75.8m)
· Air France, KLM , Iberia and Alitalia combined (79.3m)
· Lufthansa and Air Berlin combined (74m)
· and 8 times more passengers than Irish regional carrier Aer Lingus (9.6m)
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