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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...

Freebird Airlines sets up shop in Malta

Transport Malta has today licensed Freebird Airlines Europe as an Approved Training Organisation, the first international company in Malta licenced exclusively for aviation training.  Freebird’s decision to set up shop...

Malta International Airport hits new highs

Malta International Airport welcomed more than 6.3 million passengers between January and October. This figure translates into an increase of 6.7 per cent over the same comparable period last year, indicating that the...

Libya is firmly on Air Malta’s radar screen

In a hard-hitting interview, Air Malta Executive chairman Notary Charles Mangion revealed that the company is actively looking at setting up bases beyond Malta’s shores. He mentioned Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily...

Helitours

Flashback to 2009 – A short article on Times of Malta about the launch of Helitours Malta, a “paper airline” using a Robinson R44 leased and operated by Eagle Associates (UK). The whole venture was...

BritishJET: David vs Goliath

Since deregulation was introduced with Malta’s accession to the EU in 2004, there have been a number of start-ups which tried to capture a slice of the lucrative leisure market. Hotelier Robbie Borg was a pioneer in...

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