200 hundred pilots for 7 planes? Wow each of them must work very long hours.

My thoughts exactly

Tosti.

I give up. Air Malta should be closed down.

Air Malta should have been privatized or sold out right a long time ago. It is costing the TAX PAYER millions, it has for a long, long time.

Yes - at this stage we taxpayers will be better off without Air Malta. We closed Malta Dry Docks and we survived. We can close Air Malta and we'll survive even better. After all, we have many more airlines serving us.

Malta gov should understand that if the cost of life is like london, and more of italy germany and france, wages must be the same not only for pilots but for all categories of workers!

Hekk irridu nitkellmu! Agreed 100%

Agree you hit the nail in the head.

unbeleivable, to hear today's socialists condemning workers for trying to organise a strike, where are the likes of GWU and the Labour of old defending workers rights?

Workers rights yes, but these are not workers but wanna be millionaires in the making! They should do some research and see what a great life they have, then maybe drop these unrealistic demands! Shame on these pilots!

Pilots are workers.

Dream on. Sounds to me you are either very dumb or a capitalist trying to confuse issues.

pilots all over the world have a good salary, to be were they are they had to make big sacrifices and pay lots of money for the studies. The shame is on persons getting 13000 euros for absolutely nothing, or persons put in high places with no experience at all, shame is making an 18 year old a CEO, and I could go on for ever.We should thank all Air Malta pilots for doing a good job for all this time

Agan: when a company is fighting for survival, it is shameful, distasteful and counterproductive to demand a 30% salary increase!!! Especially that when compared to other pilots their perks are already better than most!
The other stuff you mentio has nothing to do with this article. However two wrongs do not make a right. Simple as that.

Air Malta pilots have their training paid for by the company. And do they have definite or indefinite contracts?

I have my doubts about the company paying for training, because I know of persons who couldin't make it for the financial reasons, however whatever the situation one cannot deny that they have one of the most difficult and responsible jobs existing

actually a brain surgeon is responsible for the person he is working on, while pilots have to take care of tens if not hundreds of people at one time, however we are talking about stopping workers from striking, I do not think its very healthy for a democracy, this is not Turkey yet is it?

at last we have the real EUimport ,just another of Muscat,s minions, where are the times the workers come first, now its only about butt licking Muscat,s heritage, as for job classification its shows that you are not even able able to ride a bycicle, because yes a train driver has to be a skilled person and not someone to send to China with 13000 euros a month for nothing or a CEO just turned 18, or a soldier of steel and his boyfriend enjoying life in Brussels, that,s for whom the gravy train is, and please this gravy train thing is starting to stink now, try to write something else.Just a reminder strikes happen all over the free world, only were there are dictators and butt lickers like you that they are prohibited

If the goverment does not prop up AirMalta, directly or indirectlythe free market will determine the pilots wages!

Il kuncett tad "denied off" ghandu jidhol ghal kull haddiem. Hekk irridu nitkellmu mela gabu l haddiema maltin jitkellmu kontra xulxin. L istess strategija li intuzat fit tarzna u fit trasport pubbliku minn amministrazzjoni nazzjonalista. Kulhadd aljenat bhas soltu.

get lost Alpha and AirMalta .. shit service anyway so why should I continue to pay taxes to cover for your mistakes?

x'tahwid. L-ewwel 150E zieda kull pilot , totat ta 50000E. ISSA hareg li kull wiehed irid 30% zieda u total ta miljuni extra lil-AM. Taf x'inhi tghid il-MaltaToday?

It is not Air Malta that has to be closed down - it's the pilot employment system that has to be changed. Why not imitate Ryan Air and hire pilots only when needed? Whoever in this column is advocating the closure of Air Malta should remember that Malta is an island, and Air Malta is our only SURE means of overseas physical communication - other airlines come and go whenever they feel like it, that is, if they make a profit. As to the comment on 200 pilots to fly 7 aircraft, yes, it is surely unrealistic. A heavy workload indeed for each pilot!

qas huma hniezer.

Another bone of contention with the pilots is,(according to their spokesman this morning),is they want to keep the cosy arrangement they have ,such as low hours of working per week and the near E100.000 per year salary and not take up international working agreements accepted by every other pilot in the World. I think I mentioned the word 'tosti' elsewhere.

Bravo ALPA, whose SOLE intention is the demise of AirMalta, demanding such exorbitant salaries from an already bankrupt company.

Hniezer!

How come air malta is not doing well.and is the most expensive airline we have in Malta ?where is the profit of air malta going?

to the pilots

What the pilots ask for and what they get are two different things. That is why there are negotiations. It is a give and take situation like any other industrial contract. I don't think Air Malta will be signing any Union contract before the the deal with Alitalia/Etihad is completed.

they already get a lot. 200 piltos for 7 planes. Let's get real.