Britain: Ryanair chief sees travel increase rapidly

As the summer tourist season begins, the number of passengers boarding its aircraft Ryanair is growing rapidly despite travel restrictions to stem the spread of coronavirus, the group’s chief executive said today. Michael O’Leary. In an interview with Reuters ahead of a press conference in Lisbon, O’Leary said the bookings for air travel have recovered strongly in the last eight weeks, with a particularly large volume of bookings to Portugal and other summer destinations from Germany, the Nordic countries and the Benelux countries, reports ΑΠΕ.

“The traffic is multiplying and many of these people are families going on summer vacations to beaches in Portugal, Spain, Greece and Italy,” O’Leary said. the airline is moving to transport 80 to 100 million passengers by March 2022. That compares with 27.5 million passengers last year but remains below pre-pandemic levels of 149 million. O’Leary said Ryanair carried 1.7 million passengers in May and said that the number is likely to rise to 5 million in June and to 9 next month.

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