Air Malta and Qantas launch Code-Share flights

Air Malta and Qantas start operating a code-share agreement today, 30 October 2005. Through this agreement Australia and Malta will be linked with a daily seamless service via London’s Heathrow Airport Terminal 4. Ticket sales on these flights have already commenced.

The code-share agreement has paved the way for Air Malta to place its two-letter (KM) code on Qantas’s daily London flights from/to Sydney and Melbourne. The Qantas services will connect with Air Malta flights between London Heathrow and Malta.

Commenting on this development Dominic Attard, Air Malta’s Chief Officer Strategic Planning commented, “We have worked hard with our colleagues at Qantas to put a competitive offer in the Maltese and Australian markets. The two carriers had to synergise their distribution technology systems and processes to provide a seamless travel offer. We believe that the Maltese community in Australia is being provided with an excellent offer to visit their ancestral home and to combine their Malta visit with London and other splendid cities in Europe. Our offer is also unbeatable as, unlike other airlines, it is based on daily services between Malta and the two major Australian cities of Sydney and Melbourne.”

Through-check in facilities will be available, meaning that passengers will be given their boarding cards for the through-journey when they check-in from Sydney, Melbourne or Malta. Passengers luggage will also be checked in all the way from Sydney or Melbourne to Malta and vice versa.

For the first month of operations, the code-share flights will operate as follows:

• QF438 / KM 1438 Melbourne-Sydney will connect with flight QF1/KM1001 Sydney-London and then KM 101 London-Malta.
• KM102 Malta-London Heathrow will connect with flight QF2/KM1002 London-Sydney and then with flight QF415 / KM 1415 Sydney-Melbourne.

As from 1st December Air Malta passengers will have the added opportunity to fly direct and back from Melbourne via Singapore. The flights will operate as follows:

• QF1/KM1001 Sydney – London Heathrow will connect with KM101 London Heathrow – Malta 
• KM102 Malta - London Heathrow will connect with QF2/KM1002 London Heathrow – Sydney 
• QF9/KM 1009 Melbourne – London will connect with KM101 London Heathrow – Malta 
• KM102 Malta - London Heathrow will connect with QF10/KM 1010 London - Melbourne

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