The budget carrier’s April traffic figures, group wide, fell 99.6% year-on-year from 13.5 million to 0.04 million owing to EU government flight bans and restrictions.
Subsidiary Lauda operated no flights during April, while Ryanair’s 600 scheduled flights included a number of rescue and medical flights operated on behalf of EU governments.
Fellow budget outfit Wizz Air fared little better, with passenger numbers down 97.6% on April 2019 from 3.3 million to just 78,000.
Wizz has operated 71 medical cargo flights and 28 rescue flights since the outbreak of Covid-19 in Europe, the carrier revealed in a traffic update on Tuesday (5 May).
On 1 May, Wizz restarted operations from its Luton and Vienna bases, albeit on a heavily reduced timetable. It has also confirmed the proposed launch of its new low-cost operation, based out of Abu Dhabi, "was progressing in line with its initial timeline".
