Malta International Airport plc reported traffic results for 2014. For the period, the company saw 4,290,304 million passengers, an increase of 6.4% from 2013 which had seen just over 4 million passengers by the end of the year. There was also an increase in aircraft movements by 4.8%, resulting in an equal increase in seat capacity. Besides an increase in available flights and seats to and from Malta, the airlines flying through the airport also succeeded in increasing the seat load factor, meaning that aircraft were on average fuller than in 2013, from 78.5% to 79.7%. Meanwhile, cargo and mail dropped by 3.1%, from 16,038 tonnes to 15,547 tonnes.

For 2015, the company expects to host some 4.4 million passengers this year, forecasting a 2% growth over last year which was a record year for the airport.