Ryanair's profit down €40m in first quarter of FY13

Ryanair released that significantly higher fuel costs caused Q1 profits to fall by €40m (from €139m last year’s) to €99m. A 6% traffic growth combined with a 4% rise in average fares led to an 11% increase in revenues to €1,284m. Ancillary sales grew by 15% to €286m (outpacing traffic growth) accounting for 22% of total revenues. Operating unit costs rose 10% as fuel increased 27% (by €117m) to €544m. Fuel amounted to 47% of total operating costs.