Malta International Airport plc Reports Traffic Results for the Month and Year to Date Ended October 2012; Updates Traffic Guidance for the Year 2012
For the year to date, passenger movements, show an increase of 3.7% when compared to the same period last year, totaling 3,245,545 passenger movements. Once again, this positive result was mainly brought about by the increase in the average seat load factor which stands at 2.4 PPD, and this is more noteworthy when one considers that the number of aircraft movements has more or less remained the same with an increase of 0.2% over the same period last year.
The company updates its forecast for passenger traffic for 2012 from an increase of 1.5% announced in July 2012 to approximately 3%, which means reaching the record of more than 3.6 million passengers.