No-frills airline Ryanair is selling one-way fares for just £4.99 as it attempts to attract passengers back to travel following Covid restrictions.
Flights from many of Ryanair' s UK hubs to destinations in Poland, Ukraine and Latvia are available for less than a fiver, with trips to holiday destinations in Spain available for just £12.99
The airline missed its targets in December after the spread of Omicron forced governments to reimpose restrictions on international travel.
The airline said it had carried 11.3 million passengers in October and 10.2 million in November. But despite the holidays, just 9.5 million passengers travelled with Ryanair in December, far below its 11 million target.
“The sudden emergence of the Omicron variant and the media hysteria it generated in December, forced many European governments to reimpose travel restrictions in the run-up to Christmas, which significantly weakened peak Christmas and New Year bookings and fares,” the business said.
But Ryanair still saw a strong recovery from the worst parts of the pandemic. During the three last months of 2021, it said, 31.1 million passengers travelled on its planes, nearly four times more than a year earlier.
And it is also showing confidence going into the vital summer season. This summer Ryanair is selling 14 per cent more tickets than it did pre-pandemic in 2019
The business said that it expects to carry just under 100 million passengers in its financial year, which ends in March.
This is unchanged from December when the figure was downgraded from more than 100 million. However, the company is having to discount more tickets to get passengers onboard.
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