Last Updated on Friday, 10 May, 2019 at 8:33 am by Christian Keszthelyi
Malta International Airport’s (MIA) traffic posted a growth of 10.5% in April, as compared to the same month a year earlier, being the fastest growing month this year, according to a press release by MIA.
The airport recorded a total of 653,100 passenger movements in April, in parallel with 4,554 aircraft movements. Traffic peaked on the 18 April with over 26,500 movements, fuelled by the Easter holidays.
MIA says that its new summer schedule contributed to an increase of 6.3% in seat capacity, and seat load factor (SLF) in April grew by 3.2 percentage points to 83.3%.
The airport’s top drivers of passenger traffic remained unchanged from the previous month: the United Kingdom (+7.4%), Italy (+6.8%), Germany (+14.4%), France (+14.5%) and Spain (+13.5%), according to figures by the airport.
