Ryanair carried 5.3m pax in April

Ryanair today announced it's passenger figures for April. For the month, a total of 5.3m passengers were carried which represents a 12% YoY increase over April 2008. Load factor grew 3% YoY to 82%. Some of this year's growth can be attirbuted to the fact that Easter fell in April this year, but nonetheless the airline's strong growth brought it's total for the month to twice that of British Airways.