Aer Lingus passenger figures bounce back in April

Aer Lingus today released it's traffic figures for April.

For the month, total passenger numbers grew 10.9% YoY to 945,000. Short haul numbers grew 13.2% while long haul fell 5.8% YoY.

Network load factor grew 4.1% to 74.6%. Short haul load factor grew 3.2% YoY to 77.5% with capacity growing 8.4% in the same period. Long haul load factor grew 4.3% to 70.4% with capacity decreasing 14.9% YoY in the same period.

Easter fell in April this year as against March last year which will have given some assistance to the growth.

Year to date passenger numbers are down 2.4% to 3.13m. Shares in Aer Lingus ended the day at €0.63, down 4.55% on yesterday.