Lufthansa and Air Malta sign MoU for bilateral cooperation

Air Malta and Lufthansa have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to start bilateral cooperation.

Both airlines are planning to adjust their timetables and give their passengers the opportunity to increase connections to worldwide destinations.

“Lufthansa offers 187 destinations in 79 countries during the coming summer timetable, together with our Star Alliance partners we fly to 800 destinations in 130 countries.”, Joachim Steinbach, Vice President of Lufthansa, explained. “Lufthansa passengers can now also make use of Air Malta flights to Munich and Frankfurt. Our aim is to integrate Air Malta into the new Lufthansa Terminal T2 in Munich, so that Air Malta passengers can then easily connect to Lufthansa flights”, Steinbach continued.

“With this cooperation Malta will move closer to Europe and the rest of the world”, Ernst Funk, CEO of Air Malta said. “The passengers can now choose their connections out of a much broader variety of flights to both Munich and Frankfurt”, he explained.

The two airlines are also planning to introduce Code-Share flights with the start of the winter timetable 2006/07 in November.

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