Malta International Airport plc (MIA) registered 594,889 passenger movements in January.
Passenger traffic peaked at the beginning of the month as the holiday season drew to a close, with 3rd January marking the airport’s busiest day of the year so far. On that day, the airport handled 35,166 passenger movements across 207 scheduled and charter flights.
Aircraft movements increased by 9.7 per cent year-on-year to 4,324 movements, while the seat load factor rose by 2.3 percentage points to 76.1 per cent.
Italy ranked as the airport’s largest market in January, accounting for 18.4 per cent of total movements. Poland followed with 16.4 per cent, ahead of the United Kingdom at 15.7 per cent. Germany and Spain accounted for 6.5 per cent and 5.7 per cent respectively.
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