Blueprint
 
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 November 2016
 
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 OCT TRAFFIC GROWS 13% TO 10.9M CUSTOMERS
LOAD FACTOR RISES 1% TO 95% ON LOWER FARES
Ryanair, Europe's favourite airline, today (2 Nov) released October traffic statistics as follows:
● Traffic grew 13% to 10.9m customers.
● Load factor rose 1% point to 95%
● Rolling annual traffic to Oct grew 16% to 114.4m customers.
 
 
Oct 15
Oct 16
 
Change
 
Customers
 
9.7M
 
10.9M
 
+13%
 
Load Factor
 
94%
 
95%
 
+1%
 
Ryanair's Kenny Jacobs said:
 
"Ryanair's October traffic grew by 13% to 10.9m customers, while our load factor jumped 1% point to 95%, on the back of lower fares and the continuing success of our "Always Getting Better" customer experience programme.
 
Customers can look forward to even lower fares when they make advance bookings for summer 2017, so there's never been a better time to book a low fare flight on Ryanair and we urge all customers who wish to book their summer 2017 holidays to do so now on the Ryanair.com website or mobile app, where they can avail of the lowest fares in Europe."
 
 
 
ENDS
For further information
please contact:
 
 
Robin Kiely
 
Joe Carmody
 
 
Ryanair Ltd
 
Edelman Ireland
 
 
Tel: +353-1-9451949
 
Tel: +353-1-6789333
 
 
press@ryanair.com
 
ryanair@edelman.com
 
 
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: 01 November, 2016
 
 
By:___/s/ Juliusz Komorek____
 
 
 
Juliusz Komorek
 
Company Secretary