Prime Minister meets Air Malta’s German Office Staff

19 May 2015

Air Malta’s German office team together with Malta’s Tourism Authority officials, met Prime Minister Dr. Joseph Muscat in Frankfurt on his recent visit last week.

The two German teams met Dr. Muscat who attended the ‘Malta Economy Forum’ at IHK, the Chamber of Commerce in Frankfurt; Germany's leading financial and business hub.

The Prime Minister, who acted as the key note speaker of the event, was accompanied by Dr. Christian Cardona, Minister of Economy, and Dr. Mario Vella, Chairman of Malta Enterprise. 

The "Malta Economy Forum" - addressed at potential German investors and business partners for Malta - dwelled on the positive experiences of leading German companies being in an economic engagement with Malta. 

During the forum representatives from German companies based in Malta including Playmobil, PromInent Group, Goeke Technology group and Lufthansa Technik gave presentations on their experience engagements in Malta.

Germany is the second most important market for Air Malta after the UK. Since its inception the German market was always very important for the airline and in fact Frankfurt was one of the seven routes to which the airline started operating to over 40 years ago on the 1st April 1974. Air Malta was instrumental in developing tourism to Malta from Germany through the airline's continued investment in serving a high number of airports on a direct basis.

Today, the Maltese airline carries over 300,000 passengers every year on its German routes. This summer the airline is operating to Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich with 26 weekly flights. Air Malta is the only airline that serves so many Germany airports all year round. 

 

Photo shows (from left): Anke Pavel (MICE Co-Ordinator MTA Germany), Martin Frendo (Air Malta Manager Germany), Michaela Hempel (Senior Executive Special Marketing Projects MTA Germany), Dr. Joseph Muscat, Dr. Christian Cardona, Nicole Staaf (Marketing Executive MTA Germany), Dagmar Reuben (Air Malta Sales & Marketing Manager Germany).


 

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