Aer Lingus July Passenger Figures

Aer Lingus has published it's traffic figures for July 2009. Total passenger numbers for the month were 1,117,000 which represented an 8.2% YoY increase for the month.

Short haul passengers totaled 1,004,000 which is an 11.2% YoY increase for the month and represents a load factor of 85.6%, an increase of 0.4% YoY.

Long haul passenger numbers are still under pressure with the monthly total reaching just 113,000 a 12.45 decrease on July 2008. Long haul load factor at 77% represents a drop of 4% on last July.

Short haul capacity was 12.8% higher YoY for the month while long haul capacity was down 12.7% YoY.

Network load factor was 82.3%, down 1.0% YoY while total capacity was up 1.5%