Low-cost airline EasyJet is planning to introduce a daily Rome-Malta service on March 12, competing head-on with Air Malta and Alitalia, informed sources said.

The service has not been officially announced yet, but the route appears on the EasyJet website.

EasyJet will be flying to Malta from Fiumicino, Rome's main airport.

It is understood that the airline has not applied for assistance to operate the route, as is the case for many other low cost operations.

A few weeks ago EasyJet announced in would start a Milan-Malta service on March 30, with three weekly flights.

A Liverpool-Malta service starts on June 13.

All EasyJet aircraft will start being serviced in Malta as from next year thanks to the setting up in Malta of the aircraft maintenance facility of SR Technics.

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