Heston Airlines, which is a relatively young Lithuanian carrier with its headquarters in Vilnius, will launch a Maltese offshoot. The company commenced operations in 2021. Sources very close to the corridors of power at...
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Air Malta’s Three-Holers
The recent news of Air Malta wet leasing an Airbus A320 from Getjet Airlines to better serve the increase in traffic during the 2022 summer season hardly came as a surprise. KM has been using aircraft on ACMI basis to...
Is Swiftair getting a Maltese AOC?
There has been some frenetic activity going on at Triq Pantar and offices in Valletta as Spanish giant Swiftair has signalled its intention of setting up an AOC in Malta. The move has come as a surprise since the...
RedBull plane swap ends with crash
A skydiving “plane swap” stunt planned by Red Bull was unsuccessful Sunday night after one of the two planes involved spiraled out of control and crash-landed in Arizona. Both pilots were safe and no injures...
New Russian turboprop
Russia has started wind-tunnel testing of a new turboprop based on the Czech airliner Let L-610. The Let company was for a time owned by US-based Ayres Corporation and the Let L-610 of which a total of eight have been...
Maltese talent joins Dronamics
Dronamics, the Bulgarian company with satellite operations in London and Malta has just recruited two talented Maltese to join its ever expanding team. They are Dr Kenneth Chircop and Captain Julian Scicluna. Dr Kenneth...
The electric Jumbolino
Announced in 2020, Wright Electric has been developing a megawatt propulsion system for an all-electric aircraft . The Wright Spirit is a re-engined BAe146/RJ affectionately known as “Jumbolino”. The term was first...
Lt Col Joseph Smith honoured
Lt Col Joseph Smith was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects Aaron Farrugia at the 10th anniversary awards held at Salini Resort on Monday 2nd May...
Captain Robert Risso: The father of CRM
MAviO Head of News Marvic Bugeja caught up with Captain Robert Risso who spent 35 years at Air Malta before joining Comlux and subsequently the Civil Aviation Directorate within Transport Malta as a Flight Operations...
Malta MedAir adds third aircraft
Malta MedAir continues with its rapid expansion unabated. Our eagle-eyed roving correspondents have spotted the third Airbus A320 which landed last night(13/04/22) at 21:52hr . The airliner should join the Corendon...
