SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
 

Washington, D.C. 20549
 


FORM 6-K
 


Report of Foreign Private Issuer
 


Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
 


For the month of August 2009
 

RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC
(Translation of registrant's name into English)
 
 

c/o Ryanair Ltd Corporate Head Office
Dublin Airport
County Dublin Ireland
(Address of principal executive offices)
 
 
 
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual
reports under cover Form 20-F or Form 40-F.
 
 
Form 20-F..X.. Form 40-F.....
 
 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information
contained in this Form is also thereby furnishing the information to the
Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934.
 
 
Yes ..... No ..X..
 
 

If "Yes" is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant
in connection with Rule 12g3-2(b): 82- ________
 
 
 

 

 



RYANAIR'S TRAFFIC GROWS 19% IN JULY


Ryanair, the world's favourite airline, today (5 Aug 09) announced that its passenger traffic grew by 19% in July 2009 to 6.7m passengers which is a new monthly traffic record for Europe's largest low fares airline.

Ryanair's continued growth underlines that passengers during this recession are increasingly switching from high fare, fuel surcharging flag carriers, such as Air France, BA, Lufthansa and Aer Lingus who are losing passengers to Ryanair's lowest fares and no fuel surcharge guarantee. 

The following are Ryanair's traffic and load factor stats for July 2009.  

 

                     Jul 08          

            Jul 09               

       Increase               

          12 mth to 31 Jul 09

Passengers (m) 1              

                    5.66M

6.73M

          19%

                 61.3M

Load Factor 2 

                       89%

             89%

            0%

                   82%


 

1.   Represents the number of booked seats flown by Ryanair.

2.   Represents the number of passengers as a proportion of the number of seats available for passengers. 


Ryanair's Daniel de Carvalho said:


"Ryanair continues to grow traffic strongly each month as passengers switch to Ryanair's lowest fares and no fuel surcharge guarantee over the high fares and unfair fuel surcharges being levied by many of our competitors.


"Ryanair carried 19% more passengers this July than last year and Ryanair now carries almost three times BA's worldwide recent traffic which clearly makes Ryanair "the world's favourite airline".


Ends.                                                              Wednesday, 5th August 2009


For further information:
Daniel de Carvalho                                      Pauline McAlester
Ryanair                                                         Murray Consultants
Tel: 00 353 1 812 1271                                 Tel: 00 353 1 4980 300

 

 

 


 

SIGNATURES
 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, hereunto duly authorized.
 
 

 

RYANAIR HOLDINGS PLC




Date:  05 August 2009
 

 

By:___/s/ Juliusz Komorek____
   
 

Juliusz Komorek
 

Company Secretary