The Ryanair Group carried around seven million passengers in January 2022. In a direct comparison with the same month last year, when there were 1,3 million travellers, there was a strong increase. Of course, it was well below the performance of January 2019.

Ryanair had to lose a lot of feathers in a direct comparison between December 2021 and the calendar month that just ended. In the final month of the previous year, 9,5 million passengers were on board. The carrier justifies the decline of around 2,5 million passengers with the effects of the Omicron Corona variant.

In general, it can be seen that the passenger numbers of Europe's largest low-cost airline have been declining for several months. Looking at the period from July 2021 to the end of January 2022, the company was able to increase its passenger numbers from 9,3 million in July 2021 to 11,1 million in August 2021. In September 2021 there was a small dip with 10,6 million passengers, but the number of travelers carried rose to 2021 million in October 11,3.

Since then, Ryanair passenger numbers have been on the way down. In general, the volume is weaker in the winter months, but the restrained demand due to the Omikron variant is gradually becoming apparent. The low-cost airline still had 2021 million passengers in November 10,2 and then dropped to 2021 million passengers in December 9,5. Most recently in January 2022 there were only seven million travelers.

A similar picture emerges when looking at capacity utilization. Between July 2021 and January 2022, this was at the following values: 80 percent, 82 percent, 81 percent, 84 percent, 86 percent, 81 percent and most recently at 79 percent. As a result, the values ​​for the load factor are also declining.