Air Malta BUSINESS CLASS London to Malta|Airbus A320-200

Air Malta Business Class Review.
Flying Air Malta Business Class from London Southend to Luqa Malta.
Air Malta business class experience on the Airbus A320-200.
Air Malta Business class offers the same as most European airlines and have the middle seat blocked out for your comfort and also serve drinks and a hot meal on flights.
Air Malta are a small national airline that struggle with the rise of low cost carriers into the country. At present they maintain a fleet of just 10 aircraft serving 39 destinations around the world flying an all Airbus aircraft Fleet.
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Air Malta Flight 183
Depart: Southend (SEN)
Arrive: Malta (MLA)
STD: 9:15am (ADP: 10:07am)
STA: 1:35pm (ATA: 2:07pm)
Aircraft: Airbus A320-200
Reg: 9H-AEN
First Flight: 17th Jan 2006
Delivered to Airline: 1st Feb 2006
Seat: 1A
Flight Time: 3h 00M
Meal Service: Lunch
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[@craigwillis3372]

Gotta love the engine sound !! Food looked ok...and you are right about the fish...stunning scenery en route! Nice flight and excellent review !!

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Yeah the Engine sound this time around was a bit louder than normal, Thanks for watching and the comment.

[@hiccup7457]

I remember when I went there, their airlines were absolutely great for me

[@flyingdentist]

I have flown with them twice economy and they were very polite and helpful.Awesome report

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

That's great to hear, thanks for watching and the comment.

[@tompathepr0]

Great Review. cheers from sweden

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

[@michaelgask]

Nice report! New airport and new airline. Thanks for taking us along :-) I'm curious about Malta... I hope you had some time to explore. Cheers and enjoy your next flight.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Thank you as always Michael. Yeah that's my 3rd time to Malta, its a really interesting place to explore and lots of history.

[@michaelgask]

When I Travel The World great! I like the look of the architecture and the history. 👍

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Make sure you watch Gladiator or World War Z before you go if you ever visit.

[@michaelgask]

When I Travel The World Thanks for the tip 👍

[@joeazzopardi5193]

Have had some good times in malta wish I was there

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Yeah its a fun place.

[@bellagio1066]

It went from a Wonderful morning to being rather misty!

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

It did indeed, it sure changed quickly.

[@rmknicks]

I flew Air Malta in business from LHR and back this past April and thought they were great. Malta is fantastic!

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Malta is a wonderful place indeed, very enjoyable. Glad you enjoyed flying with them.

[@asim5675556]

great .... malta is best place

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Yes its a nice place to visit.

[@Watfordfc2030]

Very nice flight and I like Malta

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Thank you as always. Yes Malta is really nice. I'm sure you have visited the famous "pub" ?

[@yverose8355]

I dive so go to Malta a couple of times a year, had no idea they even had an airline!! Will look for them in future :)

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

LOL I guess that shows how bad the marketing can be if you go there often and don't even know about them.

[@clausstimpfig3803]

Thank you so much for this report. Air Malta has very affordable fares in B/CL out of Germany. Mealservice is surprisingly good. Ant the champagne is a very nice touch ...Eurowings f.ex. does not offer champagne in their BIZZClass..not even on longhaul flights….(the are serving a real good German Sekt, though) So, James, I think you have convinced me to use Air Malta.....

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

The price I paid for this flight one way was actually pretty low, around 112GBP one way, so I can't really fault them on the price. It was nice to actually have real Champagne and it not be sparking wine or Cava, which I thought they might do, so I was really impressed with that. I think for a small airline they do a nice job, now the seats are not amazing, but it beats Ryanair or Easyjet if you can grab a low fare.

[@fadzilrahim7270]

Nice fly Malta, 👍👍👍😃

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Indeed it was.

[@marklaferlajr]

Glad you enjoyed flying our national airline! I actually find them to generally be better than most European carriers, especially meal-wise. Wine and some of the spirits on offer in business class could use a sprucing up, but otherwise very decent. The business class in-flight meal options have been upgraded since your trip... so maybe you should plan a follow-up review ;)

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Yes it was a pleasure to fly them, Air Malta has always interested me, I would certainly look at trying them again the future and enjoying the new meal service.

[@georgemaster3845]

@@Whenitraveltheworld The future of Air Malta is the A320 neo. The plane would at least look more presentable than those old planes!

[@PeteRansom]

I did this same journey at Easter. Decent airline without being memorable. It worked out cheaper for me to travel over from SW London the night before, stay over at the Holiday Inn and get an early flight than to get a later one from Heathrow.

[@PeteRansom]

Also, can we have a minute for the bus from the plane that takes you all of 25m to the terminal 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Glad you had a good flight with them, Yeah they do have some good deals on flights all over the U.K Which is nice. ha yeah the bus ride is rather short, though I do believe I had a bus ride once which made about 100 people get on wait for 5 minutes, only to drive 10 meters and stop to let us out, everyone on the bus just laughed.

[@peteryeong4871]

Thanks for a very good video as per usual. Never thought a loaded A320 could take-off Southend and fly to Malta. 707s have departed before; but thy were empty.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Thanks Peter, that might explain the really rapid take off and power on this one. But we had some runway space left.

[@Dave619.]

The runway was extended a few years ago to accommodate the new passengers services that started up here.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Wow if its only 6000FT now , I wonder how short it was before then. But after looking i see they extended it an extra 984 FT when Stobart took over the airport.

[@Dave619.]

When I Travel The World my first ever flight was actually air Malta from Southend back in 1986. It was an old 737-200 and due to the runway, it couldn’t take off with a full fuel load and had to stop and Ostend on the way to refuel!

[@pierrenine5775]

Nice to get a look at a lesser-known airline which I thought appeared to be quite decent. And I agree with you James, champagne does make the flight go faster, whatever the time of day!!!

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

ha ha, glad you agree on the Champagne part, its does indeed pass the time. Yeah I wanted to fly Air Malta as its an Airline that really struggles to compete with Ryanair, Easyjet etc. So I do wonder how much longer they will be around.

[@pierrenine5775]

@@Whenitraveltheworld That would be a real shame to lose them.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Yeah it would be indeed.

[@EssexWolf1993]

My parents flew Air Malta from Southend back in the 80’s. As Southend’s runway was shorter back then and being a full flight, they had to stop in Ostend enroute to refuel.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Wow that's crazy lol, there must have hardly been any fuel on that plane.

[@EssexWolf1993]

When I Travel The World Being a full flight, with loads of luggage and a short runway doesn’t do many favours.

[@petrolhead1960]

Not too bad for a four hour flight. The airport not being crowded was a bonus.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Yes its was the best part of that airport. Not much else there otherwise. But I think Ryanair are starting operations from it, so that will change it.

[@gregorybaker330]

I flew out of Caticlan Borocay at 2300m/foot on the brakes and the piano keys come up rather quick/no need for v1 lol/ also GOl 738 out of Santos Dumont no full power but do stand on the brakes till 70 percent thrust

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Sounds like a very fun take off :)

[@gregorybaker330]

6k takeoff length ok these days. Try going out of Santos Dunont in Rio at 3k

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

oh wow 3K that's going to be a run ride.

[@ahsanabbas1255]

Sir when will malta airport open ????

[@enricomonti156]

Air Malta unfortunately discontinued this service. The only time I was to travel to Southend Airport, Air Malta cancelled my flight and transferred me.to Heathrow instead

[@louiscy]

Love Drappier.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Yeah it was pretty good.

[@jamesnicholls9969]

i wonder how air malta will do with ryanair starting their subsidiary malta air

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

It might make them go under, it would be sad to see that.

[@karlp8484]

I think the food offering looked really good. Obviously no idea as to the taste. Its actually a big problem, food on the ground tastes quite different at 8500ft. Even wines which are great on the ground taste..er..rubbish in planes and vice versa.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Yeah that is very true on the food and wine, the reason some airlines try to find food and wines that taste better at altitude and load them up with salt. The food tasted great, just the fish was more crumbly. No complaints on the Champagne though.

[@davidyork6243]

Always fly airmalta now to Malta they are better than BA on this route. Have done this trip for more than 20 years and always used to fly BA but they have gone down hill since they allowed EasyJet to buy GB airways a BA franchise.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Thanks for the comment, good to know that a lot of people still enjoy Air Malta.

[@johnsymons76]

European style Business Class still makes me laugh! The larger seat is what I expect in a Business Class cabin. The food looked average. I only hope that the ticket price was substantially less than a legacy carrier.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Hi John, thanks for the comment. Air Malta is a legacy Carrier though, but it was still a very good price.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Correction...Technically they are not Legacy anymore :)

[@astra686]

you should show your flight diary stats..

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

I do have one, just need to remember the URL.

[@peteryeong4871]

I also question Air Malta's choice of airport. Surely Luton would have been better given that some legacy airlines already serve it ? eg.El Al . Easier for the punter to interconnect.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Its interesting Air Malta also fly to LHR and LGW. And even Bristol :) They must know the market.

[@londonpommie]

Luton is an absolute hellhole of an airport. Southend is far better.

[@peteryeong4871]

Noted. But which UK airport is ok? Ah! London City. But at rush hour it is not good.

[@londonpommie]

@@peteryeong4871 Any London airport is better than Luton, it's a vile place. Even Stansted in the middle of Essex is a better choice.

[@livingadreaminparadise9307]

@@londonpommie Have to agree as I live next to it its a nice airport

[@mrk10utt]

*scaring the birds before take off* *casually shoots a bird*

[@mpjs7675]

what work do you do for a living

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

I work in the travel industry.

[@kiwitrains]

How long was the flight

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Just over 2 hours.

[@jeanmacagnan6367]

Tinha que fazer conexões em airport of congonhas 🇧🇷🛬🛬🛫

[@LEGENDGAMING99]

What is air malta baggage

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Depends on the fare you book, I would check their website.

[@lindenbeck]

The airport of Malta you can forget (no much traffic). I'd been living on Malta for 3 month. I remember how boring it was living on Malta after 2 weeks. Positive was that I got paid for the flight, accommodation and for the living. Did an internship at a language school for English with a 3 weeks free English course. Arranged by the headmaster.

[@diederikvanrappard7506]

Great video of this little airline, however it's unacceptable letting full fare passengers check-in at economy desks.Extremely poor lounge. This will be another low cost airport for the London region. I'm not impressed. One to avoid.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Yeah it was a little disappointing but not the end of the world. Yeah now that Ryanair has moved into SEN I think its going low cost all the way.

[@susanhill8332]

Have very bad feelings about Air Malta. Unfortunately I had my flight cancelled by another airline while in Malta in March 2020 during the beginning of the Covid pandemic. I managed to book flight with Air Malta costing 200 euros for one way seat. Within 3 hours I was informed that they were cancelling flight. But there was another flight with Air Malta the next day. But guess what?, they wanted 1,200 euros. A greedy selfish airline taking advantage of unfortunate people getting marooned in Malta. My saviour eventually was Turkish Airlines for under 200 euros. Will never fly Air Malta again. But Malta is a beautiful friendly island and will return

[@xr6lad]

It's a real stretch; in fact a massive one; to include the word 'London' in Southend's name, airport or otherwise. Actually, it's a joke. But then Luton does it I suppose.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Yeah I agree with you there lol. Its not exactly located in London.

[@Dave619.]

London city is technically the only airport in London! On average, you can get from the plane to central London quicker from Southend than you can from most of the other big airports as it takes no time at all to get from the plane to the train station. I live close to the airport and on a flight from Belfast, I was in my front room at home just 15 minutes after the plane pulled up to the terminal!

[@xr6lad]

Dave Mallam yes I suppose your right and tbh many cities primary airports can be 65 KLM away. It's just when I think Southend the words 'part of London' doesn't immediately leap to mind.

[@RobertSmith-di3kl]

Flew air Malta dozen of times business class not worth the money

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

I guess that is true for most EU airlines on short hops though right ?

[@alflilawulila]

Me clavaron 80€ por el equipaje de mano sin ninguna razón: las medidas estaban inferiores a las exigidas en la web. Un autentico timo, estafa y robo. Lo he reclamado tantas veces y no me devolvieron mi dinero. Espero que mis 80€ les ha sacado de pobres...... Una vergüenza......

[@JimBeary]

Hi James! May I suggest you edit your comment about having to wait with lower class passengers @ around 1:20? I rarely see black passengers in the cafes and lounges, the lines or the planes you find yourself in. It's not a friendly look or sentiment to see you complaining here with black passengers front and center in the shot. Just a friendly suggestion.

[@londonpommie]

Hahaha, are you for real?!? The comment on the video is that there is no separate business check-in so there is one mixed line for economy and business passengers. If you take offence at that, I suggest you unplug the internet and go do something less stressful, just a friendly suggestion of course.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Hi Jim, My comment has nothing to do with Race. The comment is about waiting in line with economy passengers. I never once said Lower Class passengers, I think you will find there are plenty of other people in that shot when i post that comment. I would never say anything like that at all or target people of certain race, Your comment actually upsets me that you think I would be like that towards other people.

[@rmknicks]

@@Whenitraveltheworld Seriously

[@JimBeary]

@@Whenitraveltheworld I am glad to hear that you care enough to be bothered about being seen as a racist. Already, the snarky Donald Trump types have slithered from their dark holes to support you here, though. My suggestion stands, and I wouldn't have made it if I believed you are a racist. I made it so you might avoid being seen in that awful light. Why? I've been following your vlog since almost the beginning, through various format changes as you grew and improved. You are still growing, aren't you? Well, my observations are what I've seen. I didn't just make them up! You didn't have to specifically say, "lower class" passengers because you are flying in which class, again...? And, I'm not terribly bothered by the lack of fellow passengers of color because of that fact, especially since that is your authentic experience. My constructive criticism is about the optics and the conclusions that might be drawn when you complain about having to stand in line with other passengers who, for whatever reasons, didn't pay as much as you did (and regularly do!) for your exclusive ticket with 2 black passengers (rare birds, right?) right in front of you! As a longtime fan and subscriber to your channel and a person of color who has been gently suggesting that your travels start taking you to Africa and Central & South America for a while now, I sincerely hope that you will not summarily dismiss my suggestions just because it was not your conscious intent to be a bigot. Take it from a black man from the American South, there are countless ways for blind racism to be written off as innocent only to be exposed for what it really is at its core when it is defended as "benign." Well, it's not benign: It's painful to see and experience, especially in the work or actions of someone you admire. Do what you will with my suggestion, but please know that I am trying to be as authentic and honest with you as you are in your videos.

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

Hi Jim, I know you have been following the channel for a while and I really enjoy reading your comments, this one certainly did surprise me as it was not something I even noticed when editing the video. I was only concerned about the large number of people in front of me in total. Unfortunately I can't edit the caption in the video without redoing the entire video, and I have now moved on from it. I have a question for you, if this had been a narrated trip report and I said that it was annoying having to wait in line with the economy passengers as the airport was not used to business passengers and I had of been speaking, would you have taken it the same way ? I'm Just curious. I have spent many months travelling around Africa between 2006-2008 and pretty much as much as I could, before I started an interest in flying. I have a big interest in going to South America at some point its just saving up the money. Anyhow, I can't really justify that filming a group of people at check in was me targeting certain people, it could have been anyone standing close to me and they would have been filmed, so would they have then been the target ? NO. Just the nearest people to me.

[@NickPeters-ug7vk]

Don't yap so much .. interested in the flight .. not you ..

[@Whenitraveltheworld]

? I only gave a very short introduction, I was not exactly talking for ages.

[@clausstimpfig3803]

that is very impolite

[@Simmomufc]

Silly comment Nick

[@deathbag]

Hi Nick Peters, you can mute the videos or turn the volume down. Much easier to do than complain.

[@kiwitrains]

He hardly said a word you idiot

[@hiccup7457]

I remember when I went there, their airlines were absolutely great for me