No-frills airline Ryanair Holdings said passenger numbers in March grew 26 per cent to 3,767,748, up from 3,000,901 in the same month last year, although its load factor - how full its aircraft were - dropped 1 percentage point to 78 per cent.
The Dublin-based carrier also said it carried 42,509,112 passengers in the rolling 12 months to March 31 st, and its load factor over that period was 82 per cent.