Malta International Airport Plc

Regulatory Filings • Oct 7, 2024

COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT

Malta International Airport plc (the "Company")

September Traffic Results & Winter Flight Schedule

Date of Announcement 7 October 2024 Reference 415/2024 In terms of Chapter 5 of the Capital Market Rules

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Malta International Airport has released its flight schedule for the upcoming autumn-winter season, offering 109 direct connections to destinations across Europe and the Middle East.

The most notable additions to the schedule, which may be accessed here, include the commencement of thrice-weekly operations to Dublin by a new airline for our airport, Irish flag carrier Aer Lingus, and the extension of Eurowings' Dusseldorf route into winter.

The launch of the schedule comes on the back of another strong month for Malta International airport, as passenger traffic continued to exhibit an upward trend in September to total 896,471 arrivals and departures, increasing by 10.4 per cent over 2023. Travel peaked early in the month, with the busiest day falling on Sunday 1st September, when Malta International Airport handled more than 33,000 passengers.

While seat capacity deployed by airlines climbed 9.1 per cent over the preceding year, the seat load factor (SLF) stood at an all-time high for September at 90.2 per cent, reflecting strong occupancy rates on flights to and from Malta.

With a market share of over 23 per cent, Italy continued to top the market leaderboard, with the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Poland following suit. While four out of the five topperforming markets for September outperformed their respective 2023 results, France was the only market to fall just 2.9 per cent short of reaching last year's levels, due to aircraft operating with fewer seats and a minimal drop in SLF.

SEPTEMBER 2024 HIGHLIGHTS

Total Traffic	896,471 passenger movements
Top Market	Italy (213,259 passenger movements)
Most Popular Airport	London, Gatwick (50,740 passenger movements)
Aircraft Movements	5,612 take-offs & landings
Seat Capacity	993,672 seats
Fastest-growing Market (from top 5)	Poland (55.8 per cent)
Cargo and Mail	1,952 tonnes
Year-to-Date Traffic	6,896,928 passenger movements (+15.5 per cent over 2023)

MLA ACHIEVES LEVEL 4 OF ACI ACCREDITATION PROGRAMME

Malta International Airport has become the second European airport and the fifth airport worldwide to be awarded Level 4 of Airports Council International's Customer Experience Accreditation Programme. The programme is tailored to evaluate how airports manage the overall guest experience, focusing on enhancing customer understanding, analysing feedback, fostering a customer-centric culture, and driving service innovation, along with other key pillars of experience management. The airport was commended on the measurement and tracking of customer experience indicators to address pain-points along the guest's journey through the airport, and also received praise for the internal initiatives undertaken to encourage collaboration between the company's departments and assist teams in delivering better customer experience.

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Signed:

Louis de Gabriele Company Secretary

About Malta International Airport

As Malta's sole air terminal, Malta International Airport connects the Maltese archipelago to over 100 destinations. In 2023, the airport welcomed 7.8 million passengers, marking a growth of 6.7% in passenger traffic over 2019.

The airport team is guided by a vision of service excellence, which has led MLA to clinch the title 'Best Airport in Europe' for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. To uphold this reputation and to be able to cater for an ever-increasing number of passengers, the company has consistently invested in the airport campus since the airport's privatisation in 2002.

The company announced a five-year investment programme totalling €250 million in 2023, aimed at enhancing the airport's infrastructure and ensuring that Malta International Airport can seamlessly handle increasing volumes of passengers, whilst reaching its environmental targets and continuing to develop the airport campus.

Apart from these notable investments into the airport's infrastructure, Malta International Airport also invests into the Maltese Islands' cultural heritage and environment through the Malta Airport Foundation which will be celebrating its 10th year anniversary this year.

Malta International Airport plc is a public company listed on the Malta Stock Exchange, with its shareholders being the Malta Mediterranean Link Consortium (40%), with Flughafen Wien AG owning a 96% share, the Government of Malta (20%), the general public (29.9%), and VIE Malta Limited (10.1%).