Employees per aircraft
I cannot but applaud Air Malta's chairman's strong words at the inauguration of the airline's new aircraft. Lawrence Zammit does not mince words and that is the way it should be. Reading between the lines antiquated work practices must surely be...
I cannot but applaud Air Malta's chairman's strong words at the inauguration of the airline's new aircraft.
Lawrence Zammit does not mince words and that is the way it should be. Reading between the lines antiquated work practices must surely be interpreted as gross overmanning. This has been the case in all parastatal organisations.
Browsing through the pages of the 2003 edition of JP Airline Fleets International, I have made some statistical observations which, for convenience, I have extracted and summarised in the table below.
I have compared like with like as far as possible in the way that I have selected airlines with aircraft having similar capacity to Air Malta's.
Furthermore, I am not sure if the 1,800 employees quoted for Air Malta include those employed with the subsidiaries or just on the core business.
On paper, it appears that Air Malta employs at least twice the number of employees engaged by other small European airlines. Any feedback from Air Malta on this matter would be interesting.
Number of Number of EmployeesAirline aircraft employees per aircraft
Aero Lloyd 19 1,170 61
Air Berlin 30 1,400 46
Condor Berlin 12 520 43
Germania 12 335 28
Air Europa 31 1,920 62
Maersk 25 1,280 51
Transavia 31 1,800 58
Air Malta 13 1,800 138