The airline said average fares declined 3% due to excess capacity in Europe, an earlier Easter in Q1 and repeated air traffic control strikes and staff shortages, which it said caused a spike in cancellations of higher fare, weekend flights.
It added that higher fuel, staff and EU261 (compensation) costs had offset strong ancillary revenue growth – up 27%.
Traffic grew 6% to 76.6 million at a load factor of 96%.
