Air Malta flight operations back to normal

Air Malta’s flights are arriving and departing according to scheduled timing after the airline yesterday experienced flight delays due to a technical problem on an aircraft at Paris Orly last Friday, the airline said.

In a statement, the airline said that its staff had worked hard on Saturday to restore schedule and ensure that flight operations returned to normal at the earliest possible, while making sure passengers suffered the least inconvenience.

“As a consequence of these delays, today’s flight KM394/5 to Amsterdam was running 55 minutes delayed but by noon the airline’s flight schedule will be back to normal. All other services will be operating to the schedule,” read the statement.

Air Malta chairman Charles Mangion said he was “impressed to see how the whole team came together with one sole objective, to prevent impact to the guest to the maximum”.

“I would like to thank all the staff at Air Malta in turning this difficult situation around,” he said.

The airline apologised for any inconvenience cause to its guests by circumstances that were beyond its control. 

Yesterday, Air Malta said it had worked relentlessly both in Malta and throughout its network to find solutions and reduce inconvenience to its guests. A special flight was organised to pick up passengers from London Gatwick Airport and operate flight KM 117. Passengers booked to travel on KM116 to London Gatwick were rerouted through other airports.