MIA registers record passenger movements in September

The increase in passenger movements, when compared to the same month last year, is equivalent to an increase of 2.4% over September 2010. This increase was achieved with a seat capacity of 459,425 seats, even though there were 7.8% less seats than in the same period last year,

In September, aircraft movements decreased by 10.6% over the corresponding period last year, whereas the average seat load factor increased by 8.2 percentage points to reach 83.2% - up from the 75% registered in September 2010. The maximum take-off weight (MTOW) was 7.4% lower than that registered in September last year, whilst cargo and mail was 7.1% higher than that recorded during the same month in 2010.

In this same month, the German, French and UK markets grew by 22%, 10.2% and 3.1% respectively, whereas the Italian and Spanish markets registered a decline during September – in fact, passenger movements in these markets  were respectively 5.6% and 1% less than the same period last year.

The results for the first nine months of the year, in terms of passenger movements, therefore show an increase of 7.6% when compared to the same period last year, totalling 2,781,802passenger movements. The increase of 4.7 percentage points in the seat load factor – which for the period January to September 2011 stands at 76.1% - together with the marginal increase of 1.1% in seat capacity was the main driver of this result.