Increase by almost 8% at Malta Int’l Airport from Jan to Sept of 2011
Passenger movements at Malta International Airport in September reached 382,389, i.e. the highest number ever registered in September. The increase is equivalent to an increase of 2.4% over September 2010 and was achieved with a seat capacity of 459,425 seats, i.e. 7.8% fewer seats than in the same period last year. In this same month, the German, French and UK markets grew by 22%, 10.2% and 3.1% respectively, whereas the Italian and Spanish markets registered a decline during September – in fact, passenger movements in these markets were respectively 5.6% and 1% less than the same period last year.
The results for the first nine months of the year, in terms of passenger movements, show an increase of almost 8% when compared to the same period last year, totalling 2,781,802 passenger movements. The increase of 4.7 percentage points in the seat load factor – which for the period January to September 2011 stands at 76.1% – together with the marginal increase of 1.1% in seat capacity was the main driver of this result.
Source: The Malta Independent OnLine
