Aer Lingus has reported a 0.7% increase in passenger numbers for July.
The number of passengers the airline carried increased to 1,027,000 from 1,020,000 the same time last year.
The airline said its short-haul passenger numbers last month rose by 1.1% to 931,000, while its long-haul numbers fell by 3% to 96,000.
It said the number of seats it fills on each flight decreased by 1.1 percentage points on July 2010 to 84.7%.
