BUDGET airline easyJet enjoyed good business last month, with passenger numbers rising to more than 1.75 million.
The May total was 95.9 per cent up on the same month last year, but the May 2002 figures did not include passenger numbers for low-cost carrier Go, which has since been taken over by easyJet.
A more meaningful comparison is with the combined May 2002 figure of 1.46 million passengers for easyJet and Go, then independent of easyJet.
On average, easyJet's planes were 83.5 per cent full in May 2003, compared with 82.1 per cent in May last year.
"The market softness that we witnessed earlier in the year due to the effects of the Gulf conflict is now dissipating and we have seen a strong recovery," said easyJet chief executive Ray Webster.
He said easyJet was now the number one carrier at Geneva airport with a 25.9 per cent market share, putting it ahead of British Airways, Air France and Switzerland's newly formed airline Swiss.
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