January 31, 2023: On Monday, Ryanair assigned its most significant profit following the tax for the quarter from October to December and stated that the bookings for Easter and summer flights in the latest weeks were robust, improved by demand from Asian people and a strong U.S. dollar.

“Bookings are showing zero signs of recession at this point,” Chief Financial Officer Neil Sorahan told Reuters.

“We had record bookings in the second week or third week of January, very robust market into Easter and the without fare stimulation,” he said.

In the previous week, rivals Wizz Air and EasyJet are stating strong summer bookings. Ryanair, Europe’s significant by passenger numbers, said it earned 211 million euros in months that ended December 31, the third quarter of its fiscal year.

The after-tax profit numbers with a forecast of 200 million euros in a firm poll of analysts and its last record of 106 million euros in the final months of 2017.

Sorahan would not start a forecast made by Chief Executive Michael O’Leary that was likely to next annual high-single-digit percentage growth in the coming summer, saying only that he was “boosted by bookings at this point.”

Ryanair reiterated its January 4 forecast of a following tax profit of between 1.325 billion and 1.425 billion euros through March 31. That was an elevation of an earlier forecast of 1 billion-1.2 billion euros.

Shares in the airline decreased 1.1% at 15.36 euros at 0840 GMT but were up over 25% since the beginning of the year.

“There is a danger that the market is dissatisfied if it gets what it expects,” Goodbody stated in a note.