Budget airlines gain more market share in Spain

The Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism in Spain said that in December, budget airline's market share increased from 35.4% to 41.7% compared to the previous December.

Load factor - which shows how full the planes are - was at 80.2% for budget/low cost airlines and slightly less at 77.3% for the traditional airlines.

The major budget airlines of Ryanair, easyJet and Air Berlin carried 58.4% of passengers with Iberia, Vueling and Clickair taking up the majority of the remainder.

Over 24 million passengers flew on budget airlines in 2007.

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