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Malta International Airport

Malta International Airport (Maltese: L-Ajruport Internazzjonali ta' Malta, IATA: MLA, ICAO: LMML) is the only airport in Malta, and it serves the whole of the Maltese Islands.

Malta International Airport

L-Ajruport Internazzjonali ta' Malta
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerMalta International Airport plc
ServesValletta
LocationLuqa, Malta
Hub forAir Malta
Focus city forRyanair (Malta Air)
Elevation AMSL300 ft / 91 m
Coordinates35°51′27″N 014°28′39″E / 35.85750°N 14.47750°E / 35.85750; 14.47750Coordinates: 35°51′27″N 014°28′39″E / 35.85750°N 14.47750°E / 35.85750; 14.47750
Websitemaltairport.com
Map
MLA
Location on a map of Malta
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 2,377 7,799 Asphalt/concrete
13/31 3,544 11,627 Asphalt/concrete
Statistics (2022 [1])
Passengers5,851,079
Passenger change 21-22 130.33%
Aircraft movements40,355
Movements change 21-22 64.61%
Cargo (kilos)16,385,725
Cargo change 21-22 10.01%
  • RWY source: ARINC eff. 2020-01-30[2]

It is located on the island of Malta, southwest of the Maltese capital, Valletta, in the town of Luqa, and occupies the location of the former RAF Luqa. The airport serves as the main hub for Air Malta and Medavia (now Mel Air) besides being a base for Ryanair and its subsidiary Malta Air. It is also home to the Area Control Center and hosts the annual Malta Airshow. The airport is operated by Malta International Airport plc.

History

Early years

The first civil airfield was constructed at Ta' Qali, followed by others at Ħal Far (RAF Hal Far) and Luqa.[when?] During the Second World War, the airfields at Ta' Qali and Hal Far were severely battered and civil operations subsequently centred on Luqa Airport.[3]

 
Airspeed Ambassador G-ALZW of British European Airways, at Luqa airport in October 1956

The increase in passenger handling and aircraft movements necessitated the construction of a civil air terminal. Preparations started in 1956, and the British Government mainly financed what was then a £300,000 project.[citation needed] Malta's new passenger air terminal at Luqa was inaugurated on 31 March 1958 by then Governor of Malta Sir Robert Laycock. The air terminal consisted of two floors including some basic facilities such as a restaurant, a post office, a cable and wireless office and a viewing balcony for the public.[citation needed]

In October 1977, a new and longer runway was launched and works commenced on the extension and refurbishment of the air terminal.[3] An arrivals lounge and another lounge dedicated to VIPs were added and the original part of the terminal building was used for departures.

This refurbishment was not enough as it still lacked certain essential facilities. Immediately after a change in government in 1987, the new administration decided that the 35-year-old terminal was past its time (Luqa Terminal) and therefore gave the green light for the construction of a new air terminal along Park 9 (now located in Gudja).[citation needed][4]

Until the construction of the new air terminal was completed, the Government embarked on a further upgrade of the old air terminal.[when?] The facilities introduced included air conditioning, new baggage carousels, flight information monitors, computerised check-in desks, a new floor surface and new retail outlets including a larger duty-free area.

Development since the 1990s

The foundation stone of the present air terminal in Gudja was laid in September 1989 and it was inaugurated in record time 29 months later, in February 1992. Malta International Airport became fully operational on 25 March 1992, and the old Luqa passenger terminal was effectively closed down after 35 years.[5] In November 1995, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines introduced a flight from Sofia to New York City that stopped in Malta. The route resulted from a partnership between Balkan and Air Malta and was operated by Boeing 767s.[6][7][8]

Its passenger numbers have increased from 3.5 million in 2011 to 6.0 million in 2017.[9] The increase in passenger numbers is mainly due to the increased number of routes served by low-cost carriers. Ryanair based one aircraft in Malta from May 2010, increasing to two in May 2012, three in March 2016, four in March 2017, five in March 2018 and further to six in April 2019.[10] The largest aircraft visiting Malta International Airport regularly is the daily Emirates Boeing 777-300. The airport has received occasional visits by the Airbus A380, usually for repainting at one of the local maintenance facilities.[11]

Facilities

 
Belgian C-130H and Royal Navy Merlin HM.2 at the 2015 Malta International Airshow. The airport has hosted the event since the 1990s.

Overview

The airport has a single passenger terminal which became fully operational on 25 March 1992. This replaced the old Luqa terminal which is by 2020 mostly used for cargo. Malta International Airport air terminal operations include general passenger services, and the operation of an extensive range of retail services at the airport, airside and landside shops, restaurants, and other outlets, which are all operated on concession agreements. The airport offers one VIP lounge, the La Valette Club.[12] The airport also hosts several maintenance facilities including those operated by Lufthansa Technik and SR Technics.

Other facilities

The head office of Medavia is on the airport property.[13]

Located within the grounds of Malta International Airport, the Business Centre is the first building in Malta to have applied for BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) to become the island's first Grade A office park. The head office of Air Malta is at Level 2 of the Skyparks Business Centre.[14]

The Malta Airport MetOffice[15] is part of the Malta International Airport and provides the function of a national meteorological service for Malta. Although they primarily serve aviation they also service the public sector.[16] All equipment, other than the Doppler Weather Radar, is enhanced by automatic weather stations, of which eight are situated in Malta and Gozo. At the same time an aerodrome weather observation system is located at the airport. The MetOffice is able to get information from the Agencia Estatal de Meteorología in Madrid and the UK's Met Office along with numerical weather models such as those provided by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Reading, England.[17]

Military usage

The Air Wing of the Armed Forces of Malta is based at Malta International Airport. The Air Wing terminal consists of six hangars. The Air Wing operates a total of four fixed-wing aircraft, six helicopters[18] and a UAV.[19]

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Malta:[20]

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines[21] Athens
Air France[22] Seasonal: Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Malta[23] Amsterdam, Brussels, Catania, Frankfurt, Lisbon,[24] London–Gatwick, London–Heathrow, Lyon, Madrid, Milan–Linate, Munich, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, Paris–Orly, Prague, Rome–Fiumicino, Tel Aviv, Vienna, Zürich
Seasonal: Berlin, Naples,[25] Nice,[25] Palermo[25]
Air Serbia[26] Belgrade[26]
airBaltic[27] Seasonal: Riga
British Airways[28] London–Gatwick
easyJet[29] London–Gatwick, Manchester
Seasonal: Milan–Malpensa, Naples
Emirates[30] Dubai–International, Larnaca
Eurowings Seasonal: Düsseldorf (begins 27 May 2023),[31] Hamburg (begins 14 May 2023)[31]
Iberia[32] Seasonal: Madrid
Israir Airlines[33] Seasonal: Tel Aviv
ITA Airways[34] Seasonal: Rome–Fiumicino[35]
Jet2.com[36] Manchester
Seasonal: Belfast–International (begins 28 March 2024),[37] Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, Glasgow, Leeds/Bradford, London–Stansted, Newcastle upon Tyne
LOT Polish Airlines[38] Seasonal: Warsaw–Chopin
Lufthansa[39][40] Frankfurt, Munich
Luxair[41] Luxembourg[42]
Norwegian Air Shuttle[43] Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo
Ryanair[44] Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Bergamo, Birmingham, Bologna, Bordeaux, Bournemouth, Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Dublin, Edinburgh, Gdańsk, Kraków, Lisbon, Liverpool,[45] London–Luton, London–Stansted, Lourdes, Luxembourg, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Memmingen,[46] Milan–Malpensa, Nantes, Naples, Niš, Perugia, Pisa, Porto, Poznan, Riga, Rome–Ciampino, Shannon, Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda,[47] Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Toulouse, Trapani, Treviso, Trieste, Turin, Vienna, Vilnius, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław, Zagreb
Seasonal: Beauvais, Chania, East Midlands, Eindhoven, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden,[48] Lamezia Terme, Paphos, Parma, Pescara, Seville, Valencia
Swiss International Air Lines[49] Seasonal: Zürich
Transavia[50] Seasonal: Nantes, Paris–Orly
Tunisair Express[51] Tunis
Turkish Airlines[52] Istanbul
Vueling[53] Barcelona, Paris–Orly
Seasonal: Bilbao
Wizz Air[54] Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Katowice, Warsaw–Chopin
Seasonal: Cluj-Napoca, Skopje

Statistics

 
Luqa airfield in 1941
 
Arrivals area
 
Apron view of the main building
 
EgyptAir Boeing 707 at Malta International Airport in 1985
Annual passenger traffic at MLA airport. See Wikidata query.

Busiest routes (by country)

Busiest international routes out of Malta International Airport by country (2022)[1]
Rank Country Passenger Movements % Change (vs 2021)
1   Italy 1,321,371   169.65
2   United Kingdom 1,059,286   120.24
3   France 567,855   137.05
4   Germany 557,736   80.51
5   Poland 278,595   115.74
6   Spain 215,000   125.20
7   Turkey 149,466   87.25
8   Belgium 149,415   79.24
9   Switzerland 139,733   107.08
10   Austria 133,400   95.50

Busiest airlines

Top 10 passenger airlines out of Malta International Airport (2016)[9]
Rank Airline Passengers % Change (vs 2015)
1 Ryanair 1,731,881   41.30
2 Air Malta 1,600,408   7.47
3 EasyJet 279,266   15.75
4 Lufthansa 230,965   7.21
5 Wizz Air 177,420   17.33
6 Turkish Airlines 132,521   11.98
7 Alitalia 111,504   24.91
8 Emirates 88,329   3.45
9 British Airways 80,024   0.97
10 Vueling 73,131   8.28

Ground transportation

Bus

Malta International Airport is served also by several buses operated by private transportation groups and public transport operated by Malta Public Transport. Malta Public Transport buses serve the airport. A mixture of Express and local services are available.[55]

Car

The airport is located 5 km (3.1 mi) southwest of the capital, Valletta.

Accidents and incidents

  • On 5 January 1960, Vickers Viscount G-AMNY of British European Airways was damaged beyond economic repair at Luqa when it departed the runway after landing following a loss of hydraulic pressure.[56]
  • On 25 November 1973, Luqa Airport witnessed the landing of KLM Flight 861. The aircraft, named "Mississippi", was a Boeing 747 hijacked by three young Arabs over Iraqi airspace on a scheduled Amsterdam-Tokyo flight with 247 passengers on board, after the hijackers threatened to blow up the plane when no country would grant landing permission. Most of the passengers and the eight stewardesses were released after negotiations with the Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff, who argued with the hijackers that the plane could not possibly take off with both the passengers and the 27,000 gallons of fuel they had demanded, given the (then) short runway. With 11 passengers on board the jumbo jet left Malta to Dubai, where the incident ended without fatalities.[57] The hijack was claimed by the Arab Nationalist Youth Organization.
  • On 23 November 1985, Luqa Airport was the scene of one of the deadliest aircraft hijackings in aviation history before the September 11 attacks.[58] EgyptAir Flight 648 was forced to land in Malta en route to Libya. Unit 777 of the Egyptian counter-terrorism forces was dispatched to deal with the incident. Storming of the Boeing 737, reluctantly authorised by Maltese officials after five hostages were shot, resulted in the death of over 60 passengers plus several security personnel and aircrew as well as the hijackers, members of the Abu Nidal Organization.
  • Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted for the Lockerbie bombing on the theory that he loaded a bomb onto Air Malta Flight KM180 Malta-Frankfurt at Luqa Airport which it is alleged found its way via the interline baggage system onto Pan Am Feeder Flight 103A Frankfurt-London and eventually onto Pan Am Flight 103 London-New York.
  • MLA was the origin airport of the Air Malta Flight 830 Malta-Istanbul hijack which ended in Cologne.
  • On 21 February 2011, two Libyan fighter pilots, both claiming to be colonels, defected and landed their Mirage F1 jets at the airport after refusing to carry out orders to fire upon a group of civilian Libyan protesters in Tripoli. On the same day two Eurocopter Super Puma helicopters registered in France also landed carrying seven French nationals who were under Italian contracts to work in Libya.[59][60]
  • On 24 October 2016, a CAE Aviation Fairchild Merlin twin turboprop crashed on take-off a short distance from the runway. All five people on board were killed. The aircraft was taking part in a French-led surveillance operation to counter people smuggling.[61][62]
  • On 23 December 2016 'Afriqiyah Airways Flight 209, operated by an Airbus A320, was hijacked while en route from Sabha Airport to Tripoli International Airport in Libya, and diverted to Malta International.

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2020 01 30 2 It is located on the island of Malta southwest of the Maltese capital Valletta in the town of Luqa and occupies the location of the former RAF Luqa The airport serves as the main hub for Air Malta and Medavia now Mel Air besides being a base for Ryanair and its subsidiary Malta Air It is also home to the Area Control Center and hosts the annual Malta Airshow The airport is operated by Malta International Airport plc Contents 1 History 1 1 Early years 1 2 Development since the 1990s 2 Facilities 2 1 Overview 2 2 Other facilities 3 Military usage 4 Airlines and destinations 5 Statistics 5 1 Busiest routes by country 5 2 Busiest airlines 6 Ground transportation 6 1 Bus 6 2 Car 7 Accidents and incidents 8 References 9 External linksHistory EditEarly years Edit The first civil airfield was constructed at Ta Qali followed by others at Ħal Far RAF Hal Far and Luqa when During the Second World War the airfields at Ta Qali and Hal Far were severely battered and civil operations subsequently centred on Luqa Airport 3 Airspeed Ambassador G ALZW of British European Airways at Luqa airport in October 1956 The increase in passenger handling and aircraft movements necessitated the construction of a civil air terminal Preparations started in 1956 and the British Government mainly financed what was then a 300 000 project citation needed Malta s new passenger air terminal at Luqa was inaugurated on 31 March 1958 by then Governor of Malta Sir Robert Laycock The air terminal consisted of two floors including some basic facilities such as a restaurant a post office a cable and wireless office and a viewing balcony for the public citation needed In October 1977 a new and longer runway was launched and works commenced on the extension and refurbishment of the air terminal 3 An arrivals lounge and another lounge dedicated to VIPs were added and the original part of the terminal building was used for departures This refurbishment was not enough as it still lacked certain essential facilities Immediately after a change in government in 1987 the new administration decided that the 35 year old terminal was past its time Luqa Terminal and therefore gave the green light for the construction of a new air terminal along Park 9 now located in Gudja citation needed 4 Until the construction of the new air terminal was completed the Government embarked on a further upgrade of the old air terminal when The facilities introduced included air conditioning new baggage carousels flight information monitors computerised check in desks a new floor surface and new retail outlets including a larger duty free area Development since the 1990s Edit The foundation stone of the present air terminal in Gudja was laid in September 1989 and it was inaugurated in record time 29 months later in February 1992 Malta International Airport became fully operational on 25 March 1992 and the old Luqa passenger terminal was effectively closed down after 35 years 5 In November 1995 Balkan Bulgarian Airlines introduced a flight from Sofia to New York City that stopped in Malta The route resulted from a partnership between Balkan and Air Malta and was operated by Boeing 767s 6 7 8 Its passenger numbers have increased from 3 5 million in 2011 to 6 0 million in 2017 9 The increase in passenger numbers is mainly due to the increased number of routes served by low cost carriers Ryanair based one aircraft in Malta from May 2010 increasing to two in May 2012 three in March 2016 four in March 2017 five in March 2018 and further to six in April 2019 10 The largest aircraft visiting Malta International Airport regularly is the daily Emirates Boeing 777 300 The airport has received occasional visits by the Airbus A380 usually for repainting at one of the local maintenance facilities 11 Facilities Edit Belgian C 130H and Royal Navy Merlin HM 2 at the 2015 Malta International Airshow The airport has hosted the event since the 1990s Overview Edit The airport has a single passenger terminal which became fully operational on 25 March 1992 This replaced the old Luqa terminal which is by 2020 mostly used for cargo Malta International Airport air terminal operations include general passenger services and the operation of an extensive range of retail services at the airport airside and landside shops restaurants and other outlets which are all operated on concession agreements The airport offers one VIP lounge the La Valette Club 12 The airport also hosts several maintenance facilities including those operated by Lufthansa Technik and SR Technics Other facilities Edit The head office of Medavia is on the airport property 13 Located within the grounds of Malta International Airport the Business Centre is the first building in Malta to have applied for BREEAM BRE Environmental Assessment Method to become the island s first Grade A office park The head office of Air Malta is at Level 2 of the Skyparks Business Centre 14 The Malta Airport MetOffice 15 is part of the Malta International Airport and provides the function of a national meteorological service for Malta Although they primarily serve aviation they also service the public sector 16 All equipment other than the Doppler Weather Radar is enhanced by automatic weather stations of which eight are situated in Malta and Gozo At the same time an aerodrome weather observation system is located at the airport The MetOffice is able to get information from the Agencia Estatal de Meteorologia in Madrid and the UK s Met Office along with numerical weather models such as those provided by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts in Reading England 17 Military usage EditThe Air Wing of the Armed Forces of Malta is based at Malta International Airport The Air Wing terminal consists of six hangars The Air Wing operates a total of four fixed wing aircraft six helicopters 18 and a UAV 19 Airlines and destinations EditThe following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and from Malta 20 AirlinesDestinationsAegean Airlines 21 AthensAir France 22 Seasonal Paris Charles de GaulleAir Malta 23 Amsterdam Brussels Catania Frankfurt Lisbon 24 London Gatwick London Heathrow Lyon Madrid Milan Linate Munich Paris Charles de Gaulle Paris Orly Prague Rome Fiumicino Tel Aviv Vienna Zurich Seasonal Berlin Naples 25 Nice 25 Palermo 25 Air Serbia 26 Belgrade 26 airBaltic 27 Seasonal RigaBritish Airways 28 London GatwickeasyJet 29 London Gatwick Manchester Seasonal Milan Malpensa NaplesEmirates 30 Dubai International LarnacaEurowingsSeasonal Dusseldorf begins 27 May 2023 31 Hamburg begins 14 May 2023 31 Iberia 32 Seasonal MadridIsrair Airlines 33 Seasonal Tel AvivITA Airways 34 Seasonal Rome Fiumicino 35 Jet2 com 36 Manchester Seasonal Belfast International begins 28 March 2024 37 Birmingham Bristol East Midlands Glasgow Leeds Bradford London Stansted Newcastle upon TyneLOT Polish Airlines 38 Seasonal Warsaw ChopinLufthansa 39 40 Frankfurt MunichLuxair 41 Luxembourg 42 Norwegian Air Shuttle 43 Seasonal Copenhagen OsloRyanair 44 Athens Barcelona Bari Bergamo Birmingham Bologna Bordeaux Bournemouth Bratislava Bucharest Budapest Cagliari Catania Charleroi Cologne Bonn Dublin Edinburgh Gdansk Krakow Lisbon Liverpool 45 London Luton London Stansted Lourdes Luxembourg Madrid Manchester Marseille Memmingen 46 Milan Malpensa Nantes Naples Nis Perugia Pisa Porto Poznan Riga Rome Ciampino Shannon Sofia Stockholm Arlanda 47 Tel Aviv Thessaloniki Toulouse Trapani Treviso Trieste Turin Vienna Vilnius Warsaw Modlin Wroclaw Zagreb Seasonal Beauvais Chania East Midlands Eindhoven Karlsruhe Baden Baden 48 Lamezia Terme Paphos Parma Pescara Seville ValenciaSwiss International Air Lines 49 Seasonal ZurichTransavia 50 Seasonal Nantes Paris OrlyTunisair Express 51 TunisTurkish Airlines 52 IstanbulVueling 53 Barcelona Paris Orly Seasonal BilbaoWizz Air 54 Belgrade Bucharest Budapest Katowice Warsaw Chopin Seasonal Cluj Napoca SkopjeStatistics Edit Luqa airfield in 1941 Arrivals area Apron view of the main building EgyptAir Boeing 707 at Malta International Airport in 1985 Graphs are temporarily unavailable due to technical issues Annual passenger traffic at MLA airport See Wikidata query Busiest routes by country Edit Busiest international routes out of Malta International Airport by country 2022 1 Rank Country Passenger Movements Change vs 2021 1 Italy 1 321 371 169 652 United Kingdom 1 059 286 120 243 France 567 855 137 054 Germany 557 736 80 515 Poland 278 595 115 746 Spain 215 000 125 207 Turkey 149 466 87 258 Belgium 149 415 79 249 Switzerland 139 733 107 0810 Austria 133 400 95 50Busiest airlines Edit Top 10 passenger airlines out of Malta International Airport 2016 9 Rank Airline Passengers Change vs 2015 1 Ryanair 1 731 881 41 302 Air Malta 1 600 408 7 473 EasyJet 279 266 15 754 Lufthansa 230 965 7 215 Wizz Air 177 420 17 336 Turkish Airlines 132 521 11 987 Alitalia 111 504 24 918 Emirates 88 329 3 459 British Airways 80 024 0 9710 Vueling 73 131 8 28Ground transportation EditBus Edit Malta International Airport is served also by several buses operated by private transportation groups and public transport operated by Malta Public Transport Malta Public Transport buses serve the airport A mixture of Express and local services are available 55 Car Edit The airport is located 5 km 3 1 mi southwest of the capital Valletta Accidents and incidents EditOn 5 January 1960 Vickers Viscount G AMNY of British European Airways was damaged beyond economic repair at Luqa when it departed the runway after landing following a loss of hydraulic pressure 56 On 25 November 1973 Luqa Airport witnessed the landing of KLM Flight 861 The aircraft named Mississippi was a Boeing 747 hijacked by three young Arabs over Iraqi airspace on a scheduled Amsterdam Tokyo flight with 247 passengers on board after the hijackers threatened to blow up the plane when no country would grant landing permission Most of the passengers and the eight stewardesses were released after negotiations with the Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff who argued with the hijackers that the plane could not possibly take off with both the passengers and the 27 000 gallons of fuel they had demanded given the then short runway With 11 passengers on board the jumbo jet left Malta to Dubai where the incident ended without fatalities 57 The hijack was claimed by the Arab Nationalist Youth Organization On 23 November 1985 Luqa Airport was the scene of one of the deadliest aircraft hijackings in aviation history before the September 11 attacks 58 EgyptAir Flight 648 was forced to land in Malta en route to Libya Unit 777 of the Egyptian counter terrorism forces was dispatched to deal with the incident Storming of the Boeing 737 reluctantly authorised by Maltese officials after five hostages were shot resulted in the death of over 60 passengers plus several security personnel and aircrew as well as the hijackers members of the Abu Nidal Organization Abdelbaset al Megrahi was convicted for the Lockerbie bombing on the theory that he loaded a bomb onto Air Malta Flight KM180 Malta Frankfurt at Luqa Airport which it is alleged found its way via the interline baggage system onto Pan Am Feeder Flight 103A Frankfurt London and eventually onto Pan Am Flight 103 London New York MLA was the origin airport of the Air Malta Flight 830 Malta Istanbul hijack which ended in Cologne On 21 February 2011 two Libyan fighter pilots both claiming to be colonels defected and landed their Mirage F1 jets at the airport after refusing to carry out orders to fire upon a group of civilian Libyan protesters in Tripoli On the same day two Eurocopter Super Puma helicopters registered in France also landed carrying seven French nationals who were under Italian contracts to work in Libya 59 60 On 24 October 2016 a CAE Aviation Fairchild Merlin twin turboprop crashed on take off a short distance from the runway All five people on board were killed The aircraft was taking part in a French led surveillance operation to counter people smuggling 61 62 On 23 December 2016 Afriqiyah Airways Flight 209 operated by an Airbus A320 was hijacked while en route from Sabha Airport to Tripoli International Airport in Libya and diverted to Malta International References Edit a b Annual Review 2022 PDF Malta International Airport LMML Malta Gudja Airport SkyVector 25 February 2020 Retrieved 25 February 2020 Data source ARINC Data Effective 2020 01 30 0901Z a b History of Malta International Airport Malta International Airport 25 January 2016 Malta airport AtoB Transfers 5 August 2022 Error Archived from the original on 2015 06 01 Retrieved 2015 06 03 Malta New York direct from November Malta Aviation Network September 1995 Retrieved 18 September 2022 Balkan Malta link up Flight International 29 August 1995 Retrieved 18 September 2022 Verchere Ian 31 January 1997 Sea change Airline Business Retrieved 18 September 2022 a b Corporate Malta International Airport PDF Miamin blob core windows net Retrieved 21 February 2017 We re now almost Malta s national airline Ryanair Timesofmalta com Retrieved 21 February 2017 A380 makes first landing in Malta Timesofmalta com Retrieved 31 May 2018 Malta Airport Lounge Review La Valette Club What s it really like Thrifty Points 2018 12 12 Retrieved 2019 02 02 Contact Us Medavia Archived from the original on 2012 07 29 Retrieved 2013 04 23 Contact Us Air Malta Archived from the original on 2013 05 02 Retrieved 2013 04 23 Malta International Airport Archived from the original on 2012 07 19 Retrieved 2015 06 03 Error Archived from the original on 2015 04 16 Retrieved 2015 06 03 Malta International Airport Archived from the original on 2012 07 10 Retrieved 2015 06 03 Embraer In association with World Air Forces directory 2022 Flight Global Retrieved 2022 09 04 Gruber Jan 2021 05 10 Malta Air forces deploy first drone Aviation Direct Retrieved 2022 09 04 Malta International Airport Flight Schedule 2 week schedule Maltairport 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2023 02 14 Retrieved 2023 04 08 Flights schedule Archived from the original on 2013 10 17 Retrieved 2021 01 11 Timetable amp flight status Archived from the original on 2018 10 28 Retrieved 2021 01 11 Lufthansa Operates First Newark to Malta Flight for Summer Cruises Simpleflying com 31 July 2021 Timetable Luxair Luxair lu Luxair optimises its Winter flight schedule and introduces two additional destinations for next Summer season 14 October 2022 Find flights to 150 destinations worldwide Norwegian Archived from the original on 2021 05 12 Retrieved 2021 01 11 Book cheap flights using Fare Finder Ryanair Ryanair com Rayanir website Ryanair com not specific enough to verify Neue Sommerstrecken von Ryanair ab Memmingen New Ryanair summer routes from Memmingen in German AeroTelegraph 2022 11 17 Rayanir website Ryanair com not specific enough to verify Sommerflugplan 2023 PDF Baden Airpark 2023 Retrieved 2023 04 08 Timetable Find flight connections online SWISS Archived from the original on 2021 01 16 Retrieved 2021 01 11 Flight status Transavia View current flight times Archived from the original on 2015 09 05 Retrieved 2021 01 11 Tunisair Express flight schedule Tunisairexpress net Retrieved 25 June 2022 Current Flight Plan Coronavirus Turkish Airlines Archived from the original on 2021 01 04 Retrieved 2021 01 11 Where we fly Archived from the original on 2018 07 17 Retrieved 2021 01 11 WIZZ Dream more Live more Be more wizzair com Arriva Routes amp timetables gt Airport Express Archived from the original on 2011 06 04 Retrieved 2011 06 03 Accident description Aviation Safety Network Retrieved 14 September 2009 Dutch KLM Boeing 747 Buettni malta com Archived from the original on 22 July 2011 Retrieved 1 November 2017 1985 Commandoes storm hijacked plane BBC 24 November 1985 Retrieved 2007 02 07 Two Libyan fighter pilots defect fly to Malta Reuters 21 February 2011 Libyan plane carried pilots to fly Mirages back PM Times of Malta Retrieved 3 June 2015 French citizens killed in surveillance plane crash on Malta BBC News 24 October 2016 Retrieved 24 October 2016 Dearden Lizzie 24 October 2016 Malta plane crash latest French customs officials killed during take off for people smuggling mission in Libya The Independent Retrieved 24 October 2016 External links Edit Media related to Malta International Airport at Wikimedia Commons Official website Current weather for LMML at NOAA NWS Accident history for MLA at Aviation Safety NetworkPortals Malta Aviation Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Malta International Airport amp oldid 1148845049, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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