Another record in passenger movements at MIA
Passenger movements at Malta International Airport in September reached 407,917 –the highest number ever registered in September, making it the sixth consecutive record month.
The increase in passenger movements compared to the same month last year, is 6.6 per cent.
This record result in September was achieved with an increase of 3.6 per cent in seat capacity over the same period last year, with a total of 476,074 seats.
In the same month, aircraft movements increased by 3.5 per cent over the corresponding period last year, whereas the average seat load factor increased by 2.5 percentage points to reach 85.7 per cent.
The maximum take-off weight was 2.9 per cent higher than that registered in September last year, while cargo and mail was 3.6 per cent lower than that recorded during the same month in 2011.
In this same month, the Spanish market grew considerably, registering an increase of 14.7 per cent, whereas the French, Italian and UK markets grew slightly, by 2.5 per cent, 0.5 per cent and 0.2 per cent, respectively. The only main market to register a decrease in September when compared to same period last year was the German one, with a decrease of 5 per cent.
January – September
Passenger movement results for the first nine months of the year show an increase of 4.1 per cent when compared to the same period last year, totalling 2,896,724 passenger movements.
The increase of 2.8 percentage points in the seat load factor together with the marginal increase of 0.4% in seat capacity was the main driver of this result.
These results follow figures issued by the National Statistics Office yesterday which show record arrivals in August.
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Mr nazzapeno dimech
Oct 6th 2012, 12:51
Some say that hunting turns of tourism , well its open season and we have a record in tourism .
Oreste Calleja
Oct 5th 2012, 19:41
In other European countries they solve the problem with a regularly scheduled bulky garbage pick service. For example, once a month or ever so often a particular location is visited by a pick-up crew who haul away such trash. Important to note 3 points: i) that this has to be regular and advertised as such - 2) the crew does not need to have any cajoling! to do their work - and 3, the service can also be on an on demand basis, where a fixed fee is paid per trip. It might be worth a test as a pilot project by one of our local councils, perhaps?
Patrick Jansen
Oct 5th 2012, 20:47
Mr/Mrs Calleja, with all due respect. Let's say you are waiting for the bus at a bus stop. Behind the bus stop there is a wall with a bin and behind that wall are some bushes. On top of the wall there are lots of empty botttles, paper wraps etc. And if you look into the bushes behind the wall all you see is bottles and other plastic rubbish. This has nothing to do with some rubbish pick up service. It shows lack of pride in someone's country or maybe people just don't think about what they are doing. They could give these places a clean up more often yes, but all that rubbish shouldn't be there in the first place..
Clifford Galea
Oct 5th 2012, 15:08
The results of this government speak for themselves. J'Alla meta jitla' l-Labour ikollna l-istess jew ahjar!
Marco Galea
Oct 5th 2012, 14:59
tort tal-Gvern, imissu jisthi Gonzi ... imma kif ta-Labour ma tigihom xejn tajba? :/
Patrick Jansen
Oct 5th 2012, 14:46
I've returned from Malta last week and have never seen so many tourists in September. Keep up the good work everyone. And please do something about the rubbish in the fields, streets etc.. If that problem is sorted out, even just a bit, tourism will increase further I'm sure. On a positive note, I've noticed a lot of projects going on to make places look more beautiful.
Michael Owen
Oct 5th 2012, 15:17
Patrick. You hit the nail right on the head. My wife and I just returned from a trip to Switzerland. This has to be one of the cleanest countries we have ever been to. Absolutely no trash anywhere that we saw and we did over 1500kms driving around between Geneva and Zurich.
Such a pity that whoever is responsible for throwing rubbish on the streets and in the fields cannot take pride in their own environment.
Could we not use the prisoners to go round the island and clean it up as they do in the U.S.?
Mr Zeppi Borg
Oct 5th 2012, 16:05
Michael Owen... Are you willing to pay them for what they are doing? And if they refuse to work for the gov what's going to happen, more years in the prison???
A Trapani
Oct 5th 2012, 17:43
its about time we install more CCTV cameras and anyone caught throwing rubbish, plastic and glass bottles, wrappers etc out of the car while waiting on traffic lights should be heavily fined. That way, people will finally learn that they should not litter our beautifully kept roundabouts/central strips
Patrick Jansen
Oct 5th 2012, 19:21
I don't think CCTV is the answer. People will simply go where there are no cameras. Besides that I didn't notice that the roundabouts or central strips were that dirty. I am referring to the countryside especially and pieces of land that are not used. If there is a field in a town somewhere in Malta and you look behind the boundary wall all you see is rubbish. Wherever it is. You can't put up CCTV everywhere in the countryside. Malta should invest heavily in educating about littering. Through billboards, TV programmes/adds, in schools etc.
And besides this introduce plain clothes wardens who hand out hefty fines for those caught littering. Something that was supposed to be done a couple of years ago and never happened, or maybe on a very small scale.
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