easyJet and SR Technics have finalised an agreement which sees the airline acquire the SR Technics maintenance facility in Malta. The signing ceremony, attended by Prime Minister Dr Robert Abela, was held at the maintenance hangar and signals the handover of the facility to easyJet. easyJet will now undertake heavy maintenance on its growing fleet of more than 340 aircraft and will welcome the workforce of more than 400 currently based at the facility to the easyJet Group. The six-bay aircraft maintenance facility has undertaken heavy maintenance for the easyJet fleet for several years.
In addition to this acquisition, easyJet has announced the continued expansion of its flying programme to and from Malta with the introduction of a new route to Liverpool, which will take off for the first time this winter. The airline continues to grow its presence in Malta with a 30% year-on-year increase in its overall flying programme this summer. The new route to Liverpool will operate on Tuesdays and Sundays all year round, with the first flights set to take off on December 10, 2024.
This is the fifth new route the airline has introduced to and from Malta in the last 12 months. Over the course of the year, easyJet has also launched new routes from Malta to Bristol, Amsterdam, Basel, and Nice and will now operate ten routes across Europe. Since easyJet began flying to Malta in March 2008, the airline has flown over four million customers and is now serving more than 400,000 customers each year.
