Aer Lingus passenger numbers for October

Aer Lingus today published its October passenger numbers .

A total of 902,000 passengers were carried for the month, a YoY decrease of 0.2%, broken down as follows :

• Short haul : 821,000 +3.3% YoY
• Long haul : 81,000 -25.7% YoY

Network load factor was 74.6%, which represents a 1.3% YoY increase with capacity falling 10.4% YoY, broken down as :

• Short haul 77.0%, -0.1% YoY with capacity +6% YoY
• Long haul 70.1%, +1.3% YoY with capacity -30.4% YoY

 The year to date performance looks like :

• Passengers carried : 9.2m +2.4% YoY
• Network load factor : 76.4%, +1.4% YoY
• Short haul load factor : 79.2%, +1.4% YoY
• Long haul load factor : 71.9%, +0.6% YoY