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MIA reports falls in both passenger & aircraft movement

MIA reports falls in both passenger & aircraft movementMalta International Airport has reported that passenger movements for the first month of the year reached 165,969; which is a decrease of 2.2% when compared to the same month last year, whilst aircraft movements for the month decreased by 10% over the corresponding period last year.

Likewise, the seat capacity for the month reached 254,714, i.e. a decrease of 9.8% over January 2011. The maximum take-off weight (MTOW) was 5.4% lower than the corresponding period, whilst cargo and mail was 6.5% lower than that recorded during the same month in 2011.

The Italian and French markets retracted in January, by 16.2% and 13.4% respectively, whereas the German market grew by a considerable 25.6%. The United Arab Emirates market grew by 19.6%, whereas the United Kingdom market had a more modest increase of 2.2%.

Traffic for 2012 at Malta International Airport continued on the trend outlined in the last quarter of 2011, when the average seat load factor reached 65.2% – a significant increase of 5.1 percentage points when compared to January 2011.




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