Airport passenger movements down 8% in November

Passenger movements at Malta International Airport decreased by 8% in November when compared to the same month in 2007, MIA said today. A total of 175,906 movements were handled, meaning that the shortfall was of 15,349 passenger movements on the...

Passenger movements at Malta International Airport decreased by 8% in November when compared to the same month in 2007, MIA said today. A total of 175,906 movements were handled, meaning that the shortfall was of 15,349 passenger movements on the scheduled and non-scheduled flights.

The drop follows a decrease of 6.1% in passenger movements in October.

Aircraft movements in November decreased by 8.3% for a total of 1,789.

MIA said the number of passengers from the UK dropped by 12.9% over the same period last year. The other main markets also followed the downward trend with Germany registering a drop of 8% and Italy -4.1%, whereas Belgium increased its traffic by 25.8% and France increased by 37.6%.

The figures for the January-November 2008 period show a 5.3% increase over the same period in 2007 which translates into 147,761 passenger movements. Aircraft movements decreased by a marginal – 0.6%.

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