Ryanair Holdings Plc (RYAAY, RYA.L) said its March traffic was down 4% to 5.5 million passengers from 5.7 million passengers last year.
Load factor declined 1% to 78 percent from 79 percent in the prior year.
Ryanair's Stephen McNamara said,
"As previously guided, Ryanair's 2011/12 winter traffic was expected to decline by approx 5% as we sit up to 80 aircraft on the ground due to higher oil prices."
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