Malta International Airport has the third most international connections among 136 airports in its class, with over 50 destinations served in its winter schedule. This result was established following an in-depth study of all airports’ schedule analysis from CAPA, leaders in global aviation knowledge, in January 2015.
“We are incredibly proud of this achievement, which shows that the hard work, in collaboration with the Ministry for Tourism and the Malta Tourism Authority, is reaping results. Our strategy is to keep forging relationships with potential operators to welcome new routes and keep making Malta more accessible,” said ad interim MIA CEO Alan Borg.
We are looking forward to welcoming new airlines and routes this year
Last year, the airport saw an increase of 6.4 per cent in passenger traffic from 2013, hosting just over four million passengers by the end of the year.
“We will keep working on expanding our brand and increasing our destination network. We are looking forward to welcoming a few new airlines and routes this year, including Aegean Air to Athens, Finnair to Helsinki, Swiss to Zurich, and Jet2.com to several UK destinations,” said Mr Borg.
MIA is third among the Airport Council International’s European community of airports hosting less than five million passengers per year (Group IV). It is preceded only by Fuerteventura Airport in the Canary Islands and Belgrade in Serbia.