All time record reached for passenger movements at MIA
Passenger movements at Malta International Airport in August reached an all-time record of 427,924, a 13.4 per cent increase on the same month last year.
Seat capacity has also hit an all-time record with 536,495 seats, an increase of 10.1 per cent.
“Yet again, MIA's monthly passenger movements in August exceeded the 400,000 mark and seat capacity has surpassed the half a million mark for the second consecutive month,” said CEO Julian Jaeger.
He expressed his satisfaction adding that “these positive results were possible through the hard work of all various stakeholders involved in the industry. I am confident that with the focus of all concerned we can maintain the momentum gained over the past months."
In August, aircraft movements grew by 8.7 per cent over the corresponding period last year, while the average seat load factor also increased by a significant 2.4 percentage points to reach 79.8 per cent - up from the 77.4 per cent registered in August 2009.
The maximum take-off weight was 9.7 per cent higher than that registered in August last year, while cargo and mail was 0.4 per cent lower than that recorded during the same month in 2009.
All the core markets registered increases in August with Spain, Italy and France growing by 31.1 per cent, 28.6 per cent and 13.7 per cent, respectively. The United Kingdom grew by 6.8 per cent, Germany, by 5.3 per cent.
January –August results show an increase of 11.9 per cent when compared to the same period last year, totalling 2,210,695 passenger movements. The increase of 9.3 per cent in seat capacity was the main driver of this result, while the average seat load factor improved by 1.5 percentage points reaching 70.8 per cent.
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S Camilleri
Sep 4th 2010, 10:10
@ Mathese Gauci: if you work in the tourism industry you or your boss are not doing much sales & marketing.
@ M Pace: You should apply for director of NSO. With your scientific insight into a few percentages.
According to NSO figures released a few days ago, Total Expenditure in July was also up 33,1% as compared with July 2009. This compares with an increase of tourists of 17.5%. I guess we have to wait for the start of October to know the increase in Total expenditure of August and how they compare with MIA's figures. But @ E Psaila, probably NSO figures are not good enough for you as you need to know the revenue. Or perhaps the yield!
edwin abela
Sep 4th 2010, 11:50
Hear hear. Well said!
C Cassar
Sep 4th 2010, 09:09
All those berating students are simply very jealous because when they were teenagers, they led a very boring life. Now they see what a great time these people have, they can't stand it. Oh well, at least the students bring some vitality and vibrancy to what would be a boring, inward looking island museum always talking about WWII. Don't these people realise that people have moved on and as the years have gone by, very few are interested in something that happened 70 years ago (no matter what they think)? So many stay stuck in the past and that is the real problem. They see different people with different ideas and a different outlook on life and realise what they've missed in their own lives. In reaction, they state mis-truths as though it will have an effect. How very sad.
Joe Ciliberti
Sep 4th 2010, 00:36
@Mr Eric Psaila: How do you expect MIA to provide revenue figures for airlines? The airlines do their own accounting, being totally entities, and they are totally separate from the airport operator. It's like asking VISET to give you accounting figures for the companies operating their cruise liners to/from Malta.
MIA's figures are impressive and what is even more remarkable is that notwithstanding the high growth it continues to offer a great service as confirmed by winning the best airport in the 1 - 5 million passengers category.
edwin abela
Sep 3rd 2010, 17:36
Can we quit it with this idiotic comments about students, once and for all? First of all if you look at NSO numbers you can see straight away by the age groups that the increases are not in the student age group brackets. Secondly, per person, students probably leave more money here than the average tourist... not by what they spend in shops, bars, restaurants etc, but what their parents pay to LOCAL schools for courses, tours, parties and LOCAL families, guesthouses, hotels for accomodation. All this money comes to malta and stays in malta.
M Pace
Sep 3rd 2010, 21:57
'All the core markets registered increases in August with Spain, Italy and France growing by 31.1 per cent, 28.6 per cent and 13.7 per cent, respectively. The United Kingdom grew by 6.8 per cent, Germany, by 5.3 per cent'.This statement proves as a fact that the increase was because of the students whuch were mainly from these countries. With respect to the income generated why dont you ask the nearby residents to where these students were stationed regards the damages they left behind for example breaking the side mirrors of all the cars in a specific road!
Joseph E Briffa
Sep 3rd 2010, 17:13
This is rich...people asking whether the tourists include students? I believe the definition of a tourists is a visitor whose stay is longer than 48 hours immaterial of the scope of the visit.. To my mind. the number of students is included in that of tourists. So somebody who comes for five days to bask in the sun or to go on a double decker bus - equally roasting in the sun - is a tourist, while somebody coming here for three weeks to study and enjoy themselves and do some skinny dipping at 3 in the morning is not a tourist. Students pay much for their visit and most of the money goes for tuition fees which is wholly local content. From the figures, it looks to me that this year we should hit 1.4 million. Keep our fingers crossed.
eric psaila
Sep 3rd 2010, 16:55
@marthese gauci you probably hit the nail on the head Ms Gauci. That is why in my previous comment I asked MIA to tell us the revenues generated out of these numbers. Numbers are important but so is the price each individual client pays because that is what determines the type of client i.e. whether he is one who spends or not.
marthese gauci
Sep 3rd 2010, 16:40
We work in the tourist industry (beverage sector) July up to mid-August were extremely quiet. Where are these figures coming from? Are these students? because we are not benefitting from them they are doing more harm than good.
Denis Attard
Sep 3rd 2010, 19:50
Incredible
Another member of the "Doom & Gloom" parade
Probably, you charge excessively
eric psaila
Sep 3rd 2010, 16:09
That's great news. However let us have all the figures. Did the revenues of the airlines involved increase because that is what really matters after all especially with high fuel prices.
Please MIA don't just ignore this comment. Give us this information not just seat factors and numbers.