Malta International Airport
Malta International Airport Luqa Airport | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Malta International Airport plc | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Malta | ||||||||||||||
Location | Luqa | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 91 m / 300 ft | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 35°51′27″N 014°28′39″E / 35.85750°N 14.47750°E | ||||||||||||||
Website | www.maltaairport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Malta International Airport (IATA: MLA, ICAO: LMML) is the only airport in Malta, and it serves the whole Maltese Archipelago. It is located between Luqa and Gudja in Malta. It occupies the location of the former RAF Luqa and was completely re-furbished, becoming fully operational on March 25, 1992. It is still referred to by locals as Luqa Airport, and sometimes as Valletta Airport internationally, as it is located 8 km from the Maltese capital Valletta.
The airport serves as the main hub for Air Malta, though many other airlines also fly to the airport, including many holiday airlines. The airport is operated by Malta International Airport plc, a public limited company. It also hosts the Area Control Centre. The airport hosts the annual Malta Airshow, visited by military and civil aircraft from various European and other countries.
Incidents and accidents
- On November 23, 1985, Luqa Airport was the scene of one of the deadliest aircraft hijackings in aviation history.[1] EgyptAir Flight 648 was forced to land in Malta en–route to Libya. On the agreement of Maltese officials, Egyptian antiterrorist forces were dispatched to deal with the incident. Storming of the Boeing 737 resulted in the death of over 60 passengers[2] plus several security personnel, aircrew and hijackers.
- Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was convicted for the Lockerbie bombing on the theory that, by some unexplained method, he loaded a bomb onto a plane at Luqa Airport that eventually found its way, via Frankfurt and Heathrow, onto PanAm 103.
Airlines and destinations
- Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
- Aerosvit (Kiev-Boryspil)
- Air Berlin (Nuremberg)
- Air Malta (Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Benghazi, Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham, Bristol, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Cairo [seasonal], Cardiff, Casablanca, Catania, Cluj-Napoca, Corfu, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Exeter, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gibraltar [seasonal], Glasgow-International, Hamburg, Ibiza [seasonal], Istanbul-Atatürk, Leeds/Bradford, Leipzig/Halle [seasonal], Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, London-Stansted, Lourdes, Lyon, Madrid, Manchester, Marseille, Milan-Malpensa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Munich, Nantes, Naples, Newcastle, Nice, Norwich, Nottingham, Oslo, Palermo, Paris-Orly, Plovdiv, Porto [seasonal], Prague, Reggio Calabria, Rome-Fiumicino, Rostov [seasonal], St. Petersburg, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tel Aviv [seasonal], Timişoara, Toulouse, Trieste, Tripoli, Tunis, Valencia, Venice, Vienna, Zürich)
- Air Mediterranee (Lyon, Marseille, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Atlant-Soyuz Airlines (Moscow-Vnukovo)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- British Airways
- operated by GB Airways (London-Gatwick, Manchester) [ends 29 March]
- BritishJET (Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow-International, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham)
- Centralwings (Warsaw)
- Clickair (Barcelona) [seasonal]
- Croatia Airlines (Zagreb)
- easyJet (London-Gatwick, Manchester) [begin 30 March]
- Emirates (Dubai, Larnaca)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- First Choice Airways (Bristol, London-Gatwick)
- Futura International Airways (Dublin)
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
- Girjet (Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade, Tripoli)
- Jetairfly (Brussels)
- Jettime (Billund, Copenhagen)
- JetX Airlines (Stockholm-Arlanda, Gothenburg, Malmö)
- Libyan Airlines (Tripoli)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Malev (Budapest)
- Meridiana (Bologna)
- MyTravel Airways (Glasgow-International, Manchester, Newcastle)
- Nordic Airways (Stockholm-Arland)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo) [starts March 2008]
- Ryanair (Barcelona-Girona, Bremen, Dublin, London-Luton, Pisa, Stockholm-Skavsta, Valencia, Venice-Treviso)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Oslo [starts April 1, 2008])
- Spanair (Barcelona, Madrid)
- Sterling Airlines (Billund, Copenhagen)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Birmingham, London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- Thomsonfly (Doncaster-Sheffield, Manchester, Birmingham, London-Gatwick)
- transavia.com (Amsterdam)
- sevenair (Monastir, Tunis)
- XL Airways (Birmingham, Bristol, London-Gatwick)
Gallery
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Departures lounge
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Arrivals lounge
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View of the outside of the terminal
External links
- Malta International Airport
- Information about Malta International Airport
- FLIGHTLINE Malta aviation website
- Template:WAD
References
- ^ "1985: Commandoes storm hijacked plane". BBC. Retrieved 2007-02-07.
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(help) - ^ "After nearly 11 years, EgyptAir hijacker sentenced". CNN. October 7, 1996. Retrieved 2007-02-07.
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