Low-fares airline Ryanair said today it carried 1,487,976 passengers in August - a 37 per cent increase on the same period last year.
The company said that 92 per cent of passengers made bookings via the Internet compared with 82 per cent in August 2001.
The latest figures took the total number of passengers carried by Ryanair for the 12 months ending in August to 12,892,676.
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