Ryanair Sees Omicron Hit to December, January Capacity

Ryanair Sees Omicron Hit to December, January Capacity
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 aircraft takes off in Riga International Airport, Latvia, on Aug. 8, 2018. Ints Kalnins/Reuters
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DUBLIN—Ryanair expects to fly around 10 percent fewer passengers in December and January due to customer concerns around the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Group Chief Executive Michael O'Leary told the Guardian newspaper in an interview.

The airline expects to fly about 10 million people in December rather than the forecast 11 million, and plans to cut about 10 percent of its capacity in January, the newspaper quoted O'Leary as saying.