we are delighted welcome in the ryanair cfo neil sorahan into the studio. have done five airports and 15 days and we are needing revenge tourism. will the summer season be longer? can you squeeze the load factor higher? neil: i think it is great, everyone is back flying again and i hope some of those 15 flights were with us. it is a busy summer. a lot of pent-up demand. as month we had a 95% load factor. -- last month we had a 95% load factor. the plan is to grow from the 149 million customers pre-covid to 165 million. i think people are keen to get back out and keen to get back to the beaches in the cities of europe and we are well placed to get them there. anna: you are keen to take them. let me ask you though about your resilience in the face of what many call the cost of living crisis and many parts of europe are experiencing this already or expected to over the winter. i know you tell me that that is an environment that customers will trade down but is not enough to save your business plan? neil: we have been very busy over the last few years pushing do

let's welcome neil sorahan, the ryanair cfo. a profit, but what happened with the numbers? >> the consensus of 157. came in 170, but impacted by the russian invasion of ukraine, impacting the folks with bookings and average fares down 4% precovid levels. looking beyond the capacity of the summer, bookings are strong with 95% lower for example, in june, 92% in the quarter. i would be disappointed if we were not 95% or 96% for july. we are seeing the fares tracking ahead into the second quarter of the year, low double digits. things are coming back, and second quarter will be good. a lot of unknowns into the third and fourth quarter. >> what unknowns are you talking about? the potential shutdowns, and that's a concern in the past, not knowing what the next turn will be with the pandemic. >> i would be hopeful given the high levels of vaccinations across europe and elsewhere, we will not see the resurgence of covid. we all remember omicron out of the but. i think it's cautious to be there could be a variant this winter, equally mak