This Explains Why August May Have Felt Just A Little Bit Too Crowded
Malta International Airport just released figures for our record breaking August here in Malta, and the numbers are staggering.
According to their recent press release, over 690,000 people passed through the Luqa airport this August alone.
Try to picture 690,000 people…
That’s 160% of Malta’s entire population, or 41 of Malta’s National Stadiums at full capacity (17,000).
…or 14 Isle of MTV crowds dancing through Floriana’s Granaries at full capacity (50,000).
The MIA recorded an unprecedented passenger growth of 14.8% since last August, with an average of 22,372 passenger movements in and out of Malta every day. On the busiest day of the summer that number climbed up to 26,359.
Most non-Maltese passengers were from the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, France, and Spain.
New routes from Bordeaux and the Tolouse accounted for the spike in French tourism, as well as additional routes from Frankfurt and Munich, Germany.
All in all, the first eight months of 2017 saw 4 million passengers, MIA’s full-year traffic equivalent for 2013.
We’ll have to wait until January for the final record-breaking stats that 2017 brought to Malta.