MIA launches winter flight schedule featuring more than 100 routes

Malta International Airport has released its flight schedule for the upcoming autumn-winter season, offering 109 direct connections to destinations across Europe and the Middle East.

The most notable additions to the schedule, which may be accessed here, include the commencement of thrice-weekly operations to Dublin by a new airline for our airport, Irish flag carrier Aer Lingus, and the extension of Eurowings’ Dusseldorf route into winter.

The launch of the schedule comes on the back of another strong month for Malta International airport, as passenger traffic continued to exhibit an upward trend in September to total 896,471 arrivals and departures, increasing by 10.4 per cent over 2023. Travel peaked early in the month, with the busiest day falling on Sunday 1st September, when Malta International Airport handled more than 33,000 passengers.

While seat capacity deployed by airlines climbed 9.1 per cent over the preceding year, the seat load factor (SLF) stood at an all-time high for September at 90.2 per cent, reflecting strong occupancy rates on flights to and from Malta.

With a market share of over 23 per cent, Italy continued to top the market leaderboard, with the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Poland following suit. While four out of the five top-performing markets for September outperformed their respective 2023 results, France was the only market to fall just 2.9 per cent short of reaching last year’s levels, due to aircraft operating with fewer seats and a minimal drop in SLF.

SEPTEMBER 2024 HIGHLIGHTS

Total Traffic 896,471 passenger movements

Top Market Italy (213,259 passenger movements)

Most Popular Airport London, Gatwick (50,740 passenger movements)

Aircraft Movements 5,612 take-offs & landings

Seat Capacity 993,672 seats

Fastest-growing Market
(from top 5) Poland (55.8 per cent)

Cargo and Mail 1,952 tonnes

Year to Date Traffic 6,896,928 passenger movements (+15.5 per cent over 2023)

MLA ACHIEVES LEVEL 4 OF ACI ACCREDITATION PROGRAMME

Malta International Airport has become the second European airport and the fifth airport worldwide to be awarded Level 4 of Airports Council International’s Customer Experience Accreditation Programme. The programme is tailored to evaluate how airports manage the overall guest experience, focusing on enhancing customer understanding, analysing feedback, fostering a customer-centric culture, and driving service innovation, along with other key pillars of experience management. The airport was commended on the measurement and tracking of customer experience indicators to address pain-points along the guest’s journey through the airport, and also received praise for the internal initiatives undertaken to encourage collaboration between the company’s departments and assist teams in delivering better customer experience.