Air Malta flight from Geneva returns twice to base because of technical issue
On Saturday, 2 September, Air Malta flight KM483 from Geneva to Malta (operated by Airbus A320 registered 9H-AEP pictures above) faced technical problems and...
July 2023 becomes Malta International Airport’s busiest month since 2019
In July, Malta International Airport experienced its busiest month since 2019, welcoming a total of 848,716 passengers. This surpassed the previous record held by...
Three passengers lost consciousness due to heat onboard Air Malta plane
During a scheduled Air Malta flight to Rome, three passengers lost consciousness due to "unprecedented soaring temperatures" inside the aircraft. The incident occurred while...
May brings more than 720,000 passengers to Malta International Airport, 7.7% more than in pre-Covid 2019
May was the second consecutive month to surpass the 700,000-passenger mark
May’s average seat load factor stood at 82.9 per cent
New developments...
March brings Malta International Airport’s busiest ever first quarter to a close
Around 1.25 million passengers welcomed at MIA in the first three months
March traffic amounted to 487,117 passenger movements
63 per cent of...
Emirates celebrates 25 years of operations to Malta
This week, Emirates celebrated 25 years of its services to Malta which started on 30 March 1998. The airline has so far carried close...
Malta International Airport launches summer schedule featuring more than 100 routes
Malta International Airport has launched its flight schedule for summer, which spoils holidaymakers with a choice of more than 100 routes in 32 countries.Those...
Air Malta launches Lisbon as a new route for summer 2023
Air Malta is pleased to announce that it will operate flights to and from Lisbon, Portugal, from 26th June 2023.Lisbon becomes the fifth new...
23.7 million passengers at Vienna Airport in 2022, double the 2021 figure but 25% below 2019
Successful comeback of the aviation sector: 30.1 million passengers in the Flughafen Wien Group in 2022 – 23.7 million travellers at Vienna Airport...
Malta Airport doubles number of passengers to 5.8 million in 2022, invests €175 million over 5 years
421,500 passengers travel through Malta International Airport in December, 5.8 million for the full year
Full-year traffic for 2022 remained 20 per cent...
Bird strike sends Air Malta flight back to Berlin
Air Malta confirms that flight KM377, operating from Berlin to Malta on 31 December 2022, encountered a bird strike shortly after take-off at 17:50.The...
Challenge Airlines MT carries 350-year-old Flemish tapestries on its inaugural flight from Liege to Malta.
Challenger Airlines MT received its Air Operator Certificate (AOC) from Transport Malta on 1 November. The first cargo carried by the airline on its...
Flughafen Wien Group in first 9 months of 2022: Upward trend continues for passenger volume, revenue and earnings
Q1-3/2022: Significant year-on-year improvement in the Group to 22.3 million passengers – 17.4 million passengers at Vienna AirportFinancial performance indicators for Q1-3/2022:...
September passenger traffic at Vienna Airport already at close to 90% of the pre-crisis level of 2019
September 2022 Traffic Results: 3,371,129 passengers handled by the Flughafen Wien Group and 2,650,592 by Vienna Airport
Passenger traffic at Vienna Airport...
650,000 passengers through Malta International Airport in September, bringing peak season to a close
Malta International Airport welcomed 2.66 million passengers in the peak summer months
September SLF stood at 89.5 per cent, marking a 3.3 per...
Flughafen Wien Group in H1 2022: The airport business is buzzing again
Significantly improved business results for the first half of 2022: revenue doubled to € 294.7 million and earnings up to € 52.3 millionH1/2022:...
European Commission approves €12 million Maltese aid measure to compensate Malta International Airport for the damage suffered due to the coronavirus pandemic
The European Commission has found a €12 million Maltese aid measure in favour of the owner and operator of Malta International Airport plc to...
Air Malta provides additional summer capacity
Air Malta announced today that following significant demand for air travel post-Covid, it has leased an additional aircraft to be able to offer added...
Passenger traffic at Vienna Airport still more than quarter below pre-crisis level of May 2019
May 2022 Traffic Results: 2,796,920 passengers handled by the Flughafen Wien Group and 2,113,282 by Vienna Airport – Passenger traffic at Vienna Airport is...
A disaster narrowly avoided while towing a Ryanair aircraft at Malta Airport
A major explosion was narrowly avoided when, on 2 April 2021, a Ryanair Boeing 737-800 (registered 9H-QCJ and operated by Malta Air) collided with...