Aer Lingus June Traffic statistics

Aer Lingus today released it's June traffic statistics.

Overall passenger numbers grew 7.5% YoY to 1.030m. The increase represents a 10.8% increase in short haul numbers but a 14.2% decline in long haul.

Network load factor fell by 0.2% YoY. Short haul load factor was 82.0%, up 0.2% YoY while capacity grew 12.2% YoY. Long haul continued the downward trend of recent months. In spite of capacity being slashed by 16.3% on long haul, the load factor fell 1.9% YoY to 80.2%.

Year to date passenger numbers are now 5.131m which represents a 0.4% growth which represents a network load factor of 74.0% up 1.2% YoY. Short haul load factor is 76.8% YTD, a 1.1% YoY growth while long haul load factor is 69.7% YTD, up 0.4% YoY.