"Ryanair, Europe’s low-fares airline, announced that it carried almost 58 million passengers in the calendar year 2008, an increase of over 8 million passengers (18%) on its 2007 traffic. The carrier capped off an extraordinary year of growth by carrying 4.4 million passengers in December, an 11% increase over December 2007. The airline carried over 5 million passengers in one month for the first t...