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Aer Lingus sees passenger numbers fall in December

Aer Lingus has seen a drop in the number of passengers flown in December.


Total carryings for the month were down to 733,000 from 734,000 in December 2012.


Short-haul numbers were down by 1.5% to 648,000, while those taking long-haul flights rose by 11.8% to 85,000.


The Irish airline saw load factors improve overall, with mainline short-haul up by three percentage points to 73.9% and long-haul up by 4.3 points to 82% as capacity increased by 4.9% year on year.


Aer Lingus is due to deliver its annual results for 2013 on February 24.

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