No frills airline easyJet said it carried 5.87m passengers in August, up six per cent from a year earlier.
The August load factor fell to 91.7 per cent from 92.2 per cent in the same month a year earlier. For the rolling 12 months it rose to 88.8 per cent from 87.2% during the same month in 2011.
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