Traffic jumps 19% at easyJet

4th Feb 2011 07:30

Budget airline easyJet flew 19.1% more passengers on its orange liveried planes this January than a year ago.More than 3.74m people took to the skies with the carrier last month, up from 3.14m in January 2010. The load factor, which measures how well planes are filled, slipped from 79.3% to 78.9%.The number of travellers flown over the past 12 months rose 8.5% to 50.32m, while the load factor grew to 87.1% from 86.2%.Its shares slumped to a three-month low a few weeks ago after the company admitted snow and strike disruption cost it £31m in the last quarter of 2010.Soaring fuel costs will also hit its results this year, it said.