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Dec 22
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Dec 23
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Change
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Guests
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11.52m
|
12.54m
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+9%
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L. Fact
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92%
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91%
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-1% pts
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Rolling
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Dec 22
|
Dec 23
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Change
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Guests
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160.4m
|
181.8m
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+13%
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L. Fact
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92%
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94%
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+2% pts
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ENDS
For further info
please contact:
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Ryanair Press
Office
Tel:
+353-1-9451799
press@ryanair.com
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OTA Pirate
Update:
In early Dec, most of the larger OTA Pirates (such as Booking.com,
Kiwi, Kayak, etc.) suddenly removed Ryanair's flights from sale on
their websites. This welcome removal may be the result of pressure
from Consumer Protection Agencies or a response to the recent Irish
High Court ruling, which granted Ryanair a permanent injunction
against screenscraper Flightbox from unlawfully scraping
Ryanair.com content for OTA's, or in response to Ryanair's KYP
(Know Your Passenger) customer initiatives such as
verification.
While these OTA Pirates only account for a small fraction of
Ryanair's bookings, we expect the sudden removal of our flights
from these OTA websites to reduce short term load factors by 1% or
2% in Dec and Jan and also to soften short term yields as we
respond by making more low fares available directly to consumers.
We do not expect this recent removal of OTA Pirate bookings will
materially affect our FY24 traffic or PAT guidance.
Ryanair will respond to this welcome removal of our flights from
OTA Pirate websites, by lowering fares where necessary to encourage
all passengers to book directly on Ryanair.com where they are
guaranteed to always get the lowest air fares without OTA Pirate
overcharges, fake contact info, or other pricing/refund scams. In
the meantime, Ryanair continues to make its fares available to
honest/transparent OTA's such as Google Flights, who do not add
hidden mark ups to Ryanair prices and who direct passengers to make
their bookings directly on the Ryanair.com website.
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RYANAIR
HOLDINGS PLC
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By:___/s/
Juliusz Komorek____
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Juliusz
Komorek
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Company
Secretary
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