Malta has a long history of consistently bankrupting its state-owned airline and the Prime Minister Robert Abela has also been very successful in conserving this practice. this practice. The Shift News have reported that Simona Refalo, the daughter of Agriculture Minister Anton Refalo has been appointed on the board of the public airline Malta MedAir. Simona Refalo is also a full-time University of Malta student and Mayor of Xewkija.
The Labour government’s corruption, embezzlement of public funds and nepotism only gets more blatant by the day and they are no longer trying to hide or pretend otherwise. The Maltese aviation sector is still suffering from legacy issues of Air Malta but the corruption seems relentless.
Malta MedAir operates mainly as a government-owned aviation services provider, focusing on charter flights, ACMI/wet-lease operations, and specialised missions. KM Malta Airlines is the state-owned successor to Air Malta and MedAir operational support, not through corporate succession or route inheritance.
KM Malta Airlines was rocked with an industrial dispute last year with its pilots – despite obtaining a very generous redundancy package with Air Malta and many of them getting re-hired by KM Malta Airlines. The early retirement packages also affected the capitalisation of the new airline which is still suffering from liquidity issues and a tough competitive environment.
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