All time MIA monthly record for passengers & seat capacity

Malta International Airport has said that passenger movements in August reached an all-time record of 427,924. The increase in passenger movements, when compared to the same month last year, is equivalent to 13.4% or 50,641 movements. In August, seat capacity has also hit an all-time record of 536,495 during the same month, i.e. an increase of 10.1% or 49,191 seats.

“Yet again, MIA’s monthly passenger movements in August exceeded the 400,000 mark and seat capacity has surpassed the half a million mark for the second consecutive month,” said CEO Julian Jaeger. He expressed his satisfaction adding that “these positive results were possible through the hard work of all various stakeholders involved in the industry. “I am confident that with the focus of all concerned we can maintain the momentum gained over the past months.”

In August, aircraft movements grew by 8.7% over the corresponding period last year, whilst the average seat load factor also increased by a significant 2.4 percentage points to reach 79.8% – up from the 77.4% registered in August 2009. The maximum take-off weight (MTOW) was 9.7% higher than that registered in August last year, whilst cargo and mail was 0.4% lower than that recorded during the same month in 2009.

All the core markets registered increases during the month of August with Spain, Italy and France growing significantly by 31.1%, 28.6% and 13.7% respectively, whereas the United Kingdom and Germany, recorded a more modest increase of 6.8% and 5.3% respectively.

The results for the first eight months of the year, in terms of passenger movements, therefore show an increase of 11.9% when compared to the same period last year, totalling 2,210,695 passenger movements. The strong increase of 9.3% in seat capacity was the main driver of this result, whilst the average seat load factor improved by 1.5 percentage points reaching 70.8% for the period January to August 2010.

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