{"id":122488,"date":"2017-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/ryanair-carried-117-million-passengers-in-2016-surpassing-the-lufthansa-group\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:36:08","slug":"ryanair-carried-117-million-passengers-in-2016-surpassing-the-lufthansa-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/ryanair-carried-117-million-passengers-in-2016-surpassing-the-lufthansa-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair carried 117 million passengers in 2016, surpassing the Lufthansa Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Ryanair, higher than Lufthansa: it became the largest airline in Europe by number of passengers<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The low-cost airline Ryanair surpassed Lufthansa and thus became the largest airline in Europe by number of passengers in 2016.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thus, Ryanair transported 117 million passengers last year, 15% more than in 2015, while the Lufthansa Group &#8211; which also includes Austrian Airlines, Swiss and the low-cost carrier Eurowings, transported 109.7 million passengers in 2016, an increase of only 1.8% compared to the previous year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lufthansa was named one of the best airlines in the world (10th place) and the second best airline in Europe, while Ryanair was in 5th place in the top of the best low-cost airlines in Europe in 2016, according to Skytrax.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wall-street.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Wall-Street<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>How many passengers did Ryanair carry in 2016?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ryanair carried 117 million passengers in 2016, representing a 15% increase compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which airline group did Ryanair surpass in passenger numbers?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ryanair surpassed the Lufthansa Group, which includes Austrian Airlines, Swiss, and the low-cost carrier Eurowings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was Lufthansa&#8217;s passenger volume in 2016?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lufthansa Group transported 109.7 million passengers in 2016, showing a growth of 1.8% over 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryanair, higher than Lufthansa: it became the largest airline in Europe by number of passengers The low-cost airline Ryanair surpassed Lufthansa and thus became the largest airline in Europe by number of passengers in 2016. Thus, Ryanair transported 117 million passengers last year, 15% more than in 2015, while the Lufthansa Group &#8211; which also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2856],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-122488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conectivity"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/transport-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122488"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=122488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}