Air Malta traffic down 6.9% in June 2009

Air Malta saw its passenger numbers drop by 6.9 percent in June as the airline industry battled the fallout of the recession.

Figures issued today by the Association of European Airlines show that Air Malta carried 143,700 passengers in June with a load factor of 63.6 percent.

Over the first half of the year the number of passengers was 648,000 down 7.2 percent over the first half of last year. The load factor over the six months was 64 percent.

The AEA said that passenger numbers on its member airlines was down 6.5 percent in June compared to June 2008. Intra-European traffic was down 6.3 percent while the North Atlantic traffic was down 7%. The hardest hit market was between Europe and the Far East, at -10.7%.

Seat capacity in June was down almost 5%, confirming that carriers have been reducing frequency.

(www.timesofmalta.com)

AOC to Orion Malta Ltd.

Orion Malta Ltd. has been granted an Air Operator Certificate by the Director of Civil Aviation Malta.

Orion Malta Ltd. has currently one aircraft on the Malta's Civil Aircraft Register, a BAe.125-800B with registration 9H-BOB.

Malta Register of Aircraft - Update

Malta DCA has published the latest update of the Maltese Civil Aircraft Register (dated 4th August 2009).

Addition/s (since last update of May 19th, 2009):

• 9H-AFQ - CL-600 Challenger 605 (Comlux Malta Ltd.); ex HB-JRP
  

• 9H-BOB - BAe.125-800B (Orion Malta Ltd.); ex ...reg'n tbc

• 9H-ELE - BAe.146-300 (Aircraft Leasing Management Ltd.); ex G-JEBG

• 9H-SNA - Airbus A319CJ (Comlux Malta Ltd.); ex F-WBGX

Malta Int'l Airport releases traffic results for July 2009

During the month of July M.I.A. registered a 6.3% decline in passenger movements. This results in an average decrease of 10.0% for the first seven months of 2009 when compared to the corresponding period last year.

The total passenger movements on scheduled and non-scheduled flights in July 2009 was of 347,223 a decline of 23,541 when compared to July 2008. Likewise, both aircraft movements and cargo & mail figures registered a decline of 1.6%.

Passenger traffic for main markets, UK and Germany, decreased by 10.0%, and 9.0% respectively, whilst the Italian market registered an increase of 8.4% when compared to July 2008.

The busiest day in July 2009 was the 28th in terms of passengers with 14,047 movements whilst the highest number of aircraft movements totalled 108 on the 19th.

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(www.maltairport.com)