Ryanair has reported a 12% year-on-year jump in September traffic - carrying 9.6m passenger last month.

This was up from 8.5m passengers during September 2014, the airline's load factor was 94% - meaning that 94 out of every 100 available seats were sold on its flights during the month.

Annual traffic was up by 16% when compared to the same period last year.

Elsewhere, the company's boss, Michael O’Leary has said that he will take a leading role in the campaign to keep Britain in the EU.

In a speech to a recent British Irish Chamber of Commerce dinner he said the British were one of the few sensible voices in the EU and he didn’t want to be a member of a union where we don’t have the UK counterbalancing the "more weird ideas of the French."

He continues: "So as the UK's largest airline, we intend to be very active in that referendum next year because I think it's absolutely vital, not just for the continuation of Ireland's economic success, but also for the continuation of the UK recovery and the UK economic success, that the UK stays a member of the European Union."

"I'm one of the people in this country who's been tortured by the European Union frequently and yet the single market is absolutely key to the continuing economic growth certainly of Ireland, also of the UK, and therefore I think we should go out and fight for it."