Malta International Airport Records July Numbers As Strongest Pandemic Recovery So Far
Malta International Airport recorded the strongest numbers after the pandemic in July almost 690,000 passengers traveling through the national airport.
In fact, the airport recovered 86% of pre-pandemic traffic in the month of July.
Seat capacity for the month of July was at 85 percent of 2019 levels, while the seat load factor (SLF) increased by 1.2 percent compared to -year of reference.
Last month’s SLF, which measures seat occupancy on flights to and from Malta, was 88.3% – the highest Malta International Airport has recorded in July since 2016.
The results of July brought traffic from one year to date at Malta International Airport to more than three million passenger movements, with this figure translating into a recovery of 75 percent of the pre-pandemic levels.
Meanwhile, Italy continued to top Malta’s airport market rankings after surpassing 2019 passenger numbers in both June and July.
This was followed by the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain. While the Italian market grew by 3 percent over July 2019, the French market recorded a more notable increase of 41 percent compared to the same month in 2019.
This growth was largely driven by the introduction of flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle and Paris Orly by Air France and Vueling, respectively.
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