The Ryanair Group carried around seven million passengers in January 2022. In direct comparison with the same month last year, when it had 1,3 million travelers, it was able to increase significantly. Of course, however, it was well below the performance of January 2019. In a direct comparison between December 2021 and the recently ended calendar month, Ryanair had to take a significant hit. In the final month of the previous year, it had 9,5 million passengers on board. The carrier attributes the decline of around 2,5 million passengers to the effects of the Omicron Corona variant. In general, it can be seen that the passenger numbers of Europe's largest low-cost airline have been declining for several months. Looking at the period from July 2021 to the end of January 2022, the company was able to increase from 9,3 million passengers in July 2021 to 11,1 million travelers in August 2021. In September 2021, there was a slight dip with 10,6 million passengers, but the number of passengers carried rose to 2021 million in October 11,3. Since then, Ryanair's passenger numbers have been on the decline. In general, the volume is weaker in the winter months, but the subdued demand due to the Omicron variant is gradually becoming apparent. The low-cost airline had 2021 million passengers in November 10,2 and then fell to 2021 million passengers in December 9,5. Most recently in January 2022, there were only seven million travelers. A similar picture emerges when looking at capacity utilization. Between July 2021 and January 2022, this was at the following values: 80 percent, 82 percent, 81 percent, 84 percent, 86 percent, 81 percent and