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Ryanair June passenger numbers rise 13 percent yr/yr

Fri Jul 3, 2009 8:45am EDT

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LONDON, July 3 (Reuters) - Irish budget airline Ryanair (RYA.I) carried 5.84 million passengers in June, 13 percent more than a year earlier, it said on Friday.

Load factor -- a measure of how well it fills planes -- rose to 85 percent from 84 percent in the same month of 2008, Europe's biggest carrier by passenger numbers said.

(Reporting by John Bowker, Editing by Lorraine Turner)



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