August was the busiest month for the Malta International Airport, which welcomed 585,218 passengers, equivalent to a daily average of 18,500.

MIA said traffic last month had registered a 6.1 per cent increase over 2014, bringing the total number of passengers who passed through the airport since the start of the year in excess of three million.

It also noted that, last month, aircraft were landing or taking off every 12 minutes.

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