Malta International Airport plc - May Traffic Results

On 6 June 2019, Malta International Airport plc published its traffic results for the month of May 2019 revealing a 4.8% increase in passengers to 674,101 movements as the summer schedule is offering improved connectivity as reflected in the 5.3% increase in seat capacity. This was only partially offset by a 0.4 percentage point decline in the seat load factor to 80.2%.

MIA’s top five markets remained unchanged from the previous month. In addition, all of these markets registered growth with MIA’s largest market – the UK – achieving an increase of 1.1%, followed by Italy (+4.1%), Germany (+0.3%), France (+4.3%) and Spain (+15.3%).

Since the start of 2019, MIA welcomed a total of 2.5 million passengers, representing an increase of 4.2% over the corresponding period last year.