The company told shareholders: “This is due to the response of EU governments to the spread of the Covid-19 virus, which have since mid-March included widespread flight bans and travel restrictions which have closed Europe’s skies to all but a tiny number of rescue and medical flights.”
Over the year the number of passengers who took a Ryanair flight rose just 4 per cent to 149 million, though the company said it had been on track to fly 154 million passengers in early March, before the worst of the pandemic struck Europe.
