DUBLIN (Reuters) - Aer Lingus carried 945,000 passengers in April, up 10.9 percent from a year earlier, the Irish airline said on Friday.

Load factor -- seats filled as a percentage of capacity -- rose by 4.1 percentage points from the same month of 2008, it said.

(Reporting by Padraic Halpin)

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