OREANDA-NEWS. April 04, 2011. Ryanair today (4th Apr) released booked passenger and load factor statistics for March 2011 as follows:

    Mar 10  Mar 11    Increase  Yr to Mar 11* 
 Passengers (m)1   5.3M  5.7M  +8%      73.5M
 Load Factor 2  79%    79%   0%   82%

1.      Represents the number of booked seats sold by Ryanair.
2.      Represents the number of passengers as a percentage of total seats available.
*Year to date traffic figure includes up to 1.45M passengers booked on flights which were cancelled due to the unnecessary closures of EU airspace during the Icelandic volcanic eruptions in April/May 2010.