Malta International Airport passenger movements on scheduled and non-scheduled flights during the month of July increased slightly when compared to the same month in 2007.

The total passenger movements in July 2008 increased by 1.3% for a total of 370,873 movements whilst aircraft movements decreased by 3.2% for a total of 2,965. The seat capacity also decreased, albeit slightly, by 4,034 (-0.8%) but the seat load factor increased by 1.6% to an average of 77.7%. Cargo and mail handled at MIA during the month of July was of 1,537 tonnes, a decrease of 3.5% when compared to July 2007.

A further analysis of the trends of the main markets shows that MIA had a significant decrease from the UK market which was however compensated with increases from the German, Italian, Spanish and French markets. Passenger movements from and to the UK decreased by 6% to 118,660, whilst traffic from Italy, Germany and France increased by 4.2%, 3.1% and 3% respectively. Once again, the Spanish market was the highest achiever with an increase of 7,849 passenger movements.

Traffic – January to July 2008

MIA registered an increase of 182,694 passenger movements, or 11.5%, from January to July this year, and an increase of 425 aircraft movements (+2.8%) on its scheduled and non-scheduled traffic. The seat capacity increased by 6.6% whereas the average seat load factor also improved from 67.4% in 2007 to 70.5% this year. Cargo and Mail activity increased by 5.4% during the period January-July 2008 for a total of 10,225 tonnes handled.

Passenger movements from the three main markets – the UK, Italy and Germany – increased by 1.9%, 8.6% and 26% respectively between January and July 2008 whilst the highest increases in percentage terms were from France (+18%) and Spain (+298.5%).

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