Michael O'Leary
Management
And you're very welcome to the Ryanair Half Year Investor Conference Call. I'm here with my colleagues, our new Chief Financial Officer, Neil Sorahan; and David O'Brien, our Chief Commercial Officer. We're being joined from New York by Howard Millar and Kenny Jacobs. I will run through the quick summary of the details. We've put out the press release, and the investor presentation is on the ryanair.com website this morning. We'll give you some brief comments on that, and then I'll ask Neil to add some comments on the financial side. David has some comments on the commercial side and commercial development. And then we'll open it up for Q&A. So as you've seen this morning, we reported very strong half year numbers. Profits were up 32% to EUR 795 million, a combination of traffic growth, load factor growth and average fares rising by 4%, 5% in first half of the year. At the same time, unit costs fell, including fuel. Excluding fuel, they rose by 3% in the half year. But we expect that over the full year, they will be flat excluding fuel and will fall by 4% including fuel for the full year. As a result, a very strong performance, most of which is due to the strategy we launched at September of being more aggressive with forward price and taking forward of our forward bookings. We've seen fuller flights, stronger load factors and much better performance. The customers who are flying with us are also enjoying the improvements that we've headed with our group together, under the Always Getting Better program. That seemed to significantly improve almost every aspect of the customer experience at Ryanair from every touch point. So from the point where they originally go on the website, which has significantly improved, new mobile…