Malta Air
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| Founded | 9 June 2019 | ||||||
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| AOC # | MT-57 | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 178 | ||||||
| Parent company | Ryanair Holdings | ||||||
| Headquarters | Pietà, Malta | ||||||
| Key people | David O’Brien (CEO) | ||||||
Malta Air is a low-cost airline that operates from Malta. It originally started as a joint venture between Ryanair and the Government of Malta.
The new airline initially operated six former Ryanair aircraft. Ryanair planned to assign 66 routes it operates to and from Malta to this new airline and there were plans to grow the network beyond that. However, these plans were revised in May 2020, when redundancy for one third of the full complement of 179 pilots and cabin crew was announced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.