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KM Pilots gather to hand in company belongings

A number of the 69 pilots that were made redundant gathered outside Air Malta Head Office to hand in the company’s belongings. It is yet unclear how things will evolve as MAviO is reliably informed there have been some...

Malta Medair to create daughter company

Malta Medair run by well known accountant Paul Bugeja will create a subsidiary which will operate a helicopter service between Malta and Gozo. Helifly which at the moment operates a Robinson R44 from Luqa on sightseeing...

Award Winners 2011

The awards started in 2012, however in 2011, we gave due recognition to three people who had worked extremely hard to help MAviO get off the ground in what was a very harsh environment at the time. I have also included...

MAS president talks to MAviO News

MAviO’s Editor-in-Chief Marvic Bugeja has earlier today caught up with the president of the Malta Aviation Society Joe Ciliberti. Talking to MAviO News, Ciliberti sheds new light on how things unfolded since...

Avio Tourism: What Future?

Avio Tourism is not a new niche for Malta to embrace in a post-pandemic scenario and neither is it a cliche that exists only in economic textbooks. Captain George E. Kissaun who conceived the first air rally way back in...

Turkish returns to Libya

After an almost 10 year hiatus Turkish Airlines will start flying to Libya from Thursday 28th March 2024. MAviO News spoke to Libyan aviation expert Captain Nouman El-Ageli who shed light on the recent devlopments...

Fly & Cruise to restart in July

After a 15 month hiatus, Fly and Cruise will start again this July. Viking Cruises will have two cruise liners based at Valletta Cruise Port and will be flying in American tourists who are already vaccinated. MAviO News...

Volotea adds two new routes

Genoa and Verona are two new routes being added to the existing three operated by Spanish low-cost carrier Volotea. The company currently serves 319 routes with a 34- aircraft fleet which is composed equally by Airbus...

Surprise visit by Afriqiyah

This Afriqiyah A320 made a surprise visit to Malta on Tuesday 8th January 2019, bringing over a high-level Libyan delegation led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj. The aircraft landed at about 4:30pm and the PM’s...

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