Malta International Airport

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Malta International Airport Luqa Airport

IATA: MLA - ICAO: LMML
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Malta International Airport plc
Serves		Malta
Elevation AMSL		300 ft (91 m)
Coordinates		35°51′26″N, 14°28′39″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
06/24	7,799	2,377	Asphalt
14/32	11,627	3,544	Asphalt

The old passenger terminal at Luqa Airport was converted into an air cargo terminal when the completely re-furbished Malta International Airport became fully operational in March 1992.

Malta International Airport (IATA: MLA, ICAO: LMML) 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.

Often mistakenly referred to by the foreign press as Valletta Airport, MIA is 8 km from the Maltese capital Valletta. The towns of Floriana, Blata-Bajda, Hamrun, Marsa, and Santa Lucia all lie between the capital, and MIA.

The Airport is fully equipped to international standards, with two runways, and a 40,000 m² terminal complex including spacious check-in, baggage claim and Welcomers' Halls, cafeterias, restaurants, tax-free shops, and other retail outlets, offices, stores, and other service areas.

Luqa Airport hosts the annual Malta Airshow, visited by military and civil aircraft from various European and other countries (see website).

1 Operations
- 1.1 Security
- 1.2 Air traffic control
2 Airlines and destinations
3 External links

[edit] Operations

[edit] Security

MIA boasts state-of-the-art equipment such as a 100% Hold Baggage Screening system capable of processing 1,500 luggage pieces per hour and an ARINC MUSE common check-in system together with a Baggage Reconciliation System.

[edit] Air traffic control

(ATC) operations are carried out from a fully equipped control tower / Area Control Centre located between runways 14/32 and 06/24.

Technical information is taken from the airport’s official homepage [1].

[edit] Airlines and destinations

The following airlines serve Malta International Airport:

Air Algerie (Algiers)
Air Berlin (Nuremberg)
Air Malta (Amsterdam, Berlin-Tegel, Birmingham, Bristol, Brussels, Cairo, Casablanca, Catania, Dublin, Düsseldorf, East Midlands, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Istanbul-Atatürk, Lisbon, Liverpool [starts May 4, 2007], London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, London-Stansted, Madrid-Barajas, Manchester, Moscow-Domodedovo, Munich, Newcastle, Oslo, Paris-Orly, Rome-Fiumicino, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tripoli, Venice [starts May 4, 2007], Vienna, Zurich)
Air Mediterranee (Paris-CDG, Paris-Orly)
Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
British Airways (London-Gatwick) - operated by GB Airways
BritishJET (Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds-Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham)
Cimber Air (Billund)
Emirates (Dubai, Larnaca) - code sharing flights with Air Malta
First Choice Airways (London-Gatwick)
Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart) [starts March 27, 2007]
Jat Airways (Belgrade, Tripoli)
Libyan Arab Airlines (Tripoli)
Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
Luxair (Luxembourg)
MyTravel Airways (Manchester)
Scandinavian SAS (Stockholm, Goteborg, Copenhagen, Oslo)
Thomas Cook (Birmingham)
Thomsonfly (Manchester, Birmingham, London-Gatwick)
Olympic Airlines (Athens) - code sharing flights with Air Malta
Ryanair (London-Luton, Pisa,) (Dublin [starts Feb, 2007])
SN Brussels (Amsterdam) - code sharing flight with Air Malta
Thomas Cook (UK) (Birmingham, Manchester)
Tuninter (Monastir, Tunis)