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Ryanair is to introduce measures aimed at attracting more business travellers, after admitting that it has let EasyJet steal a march in the European corporate market. Wednesday the airline took the first of these steps by allowing business customers to purchase flights with an American Express card. Carolyn McCall, EasyJet’s CE since 2010, has made a priority of attracting more business travellers to airline. Last year, 10m such passengers flew with EasyJet, or 20% of the customer base. However, Ryanair is seeking to catch up with EasyJet’s innovation in the corporate market, and is buying 175 Boeing passenger jets in an attempt to boost its total passenger numbers from 79.3m in 2012-13 to 110m by 2018-19. Howard Millar, Ryanair’s finance director, said the airline was considering several new facilities to help business travellers, such as fast-tracking through airport security.