Travel down in September

A total of 22,828 Maltese travelled out of the island last September, the National Statistics Office said. Of these, 20,089 passengers left by air - a drop of 18.6 per cent over the same month last year. The rest used marine transport. The most...

A total of 22,828 Maltese travelled out of the island last September, the National Statistics Office said.

Of these, 20,089 passengers left by air - a drop of 18.6 per cent over the same month last year. The rest used marine transport.

The most frequent destination was the UK which accounted for 22.3 per cent of the air travellers.

The other destinations were Italy (21 per cent), Tunisia (8.4 per cent), Germany (5.7 per cent), France (6.5 per cent), The Netherlands (2.6 per cent) and Spain (2.5 per cent).

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