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Airport Malta (Malta) - International
| Malta International Airport Luqa Airport |
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|---|---|---|---|
| IATA: MLA ICAO: LMML | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Malta International Airport plc | ||
| Serves | Malta | ||
| Location | Luqa | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 91 m / 300 ft | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 05/23 | 2,377 | 7,799 | Asphalt |
| 13/31 | 3,544 | 11,627 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2006) | |||
| Passengers | 2,701,624 | ||
| Aircraft movements | 27,832 | ||
| Cargo (kg) | 18,262,515 | ||
| Source: [1] | |||
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 kilometres 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.
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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 enroute 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 London Heathrow, onto Pan Am Flight 103.
Airlines and destinations
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremeteyvo) seasonal
- Aerosvit (Kiev-Boryspil)
- Air Berlin (Nuremberg)
- Air Malta (Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Basel/Mulhouse, Belfast-International, Benghazi, Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham, Bristol, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni [seasonal], Cairo [seasonal], Cardiff, Casablanca, Catania, Cluj-Napoca [seasonal], Corfu, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Exeter, Frankfurt, Geneva, Gibraltar [seasonal], Glasgow-International, Hamburg, Ibiza [seasonal], Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil, 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], Timioara [seasonal], 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)
- Batavia (Amsterdam)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick)
- Clickair (Barcelona) [seasonal]
- Croatia Airlines (Zagreb)
- Easy Jet (London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- EgyptAir Express (Cairo)
- Emirates (Dubai, Larnaca)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- First Choice Airways (London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- Flyforbeans (Cardiff) [begins September 2008]
- Futura International Airways (Dublin)
- German Wings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart)
- Girjet (Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia)
- Jat Airways (Belgrade, Tripoli)
- Jetairfly (Brussels)
- Jettime (Billund, Copenhagen)
- JetX Airlines (Stockholm-Arlanda, Gothenburg, Malmö)
- Libyan Arab Airlines (Tripoli)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Nordic Airways (Stockholm-Arland)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
- Ryanair (Barcelona-Girona, Bremen, Dublin, London-Luton, Pisa, Stockholm-Skavsta, Valencia, Venice-Treviso)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Oslo)
- Spanair (Barcelona, Madrid)
- Sterling Airlines (Billund, Copenhagen)
- Thomas Cook Airlines (Birmingham, East Midlands, Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- Thomsonfly (London-Gatwick, Manchester)
- transavia.com (Amsterdam [seasonal])
- sevenair (Monastir, Tunis)
- Volare Airlines (Milan-Malpensa)
- XL Airways (Birmingham, Bristol, London-Gatwick, Newcastle)
Gallery
External links
- Malta International Airport
- Airport information for LMML at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
References
- ^ "1985: Commandoes storm hijacked plane", BBC. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
- ^ "After nearly 11 years, EgyptAir hijacker sentenced", CNN (October 7, 1996). Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
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