I read with interest the letter in Wednesday’s Times of Malta concerning the alterations to the in-flight service offered by Air Malta. I totally agree with the correspondent.

I travel three or four times a year to Malta and on each occasion in the past I have used Air Malta, because food, drink and luggage were included.

What strikes me about the new decision is that the executive in charge has not heard of the law of diminishing returns: I have no doubt that many people will now fly to and from Malta using the budget airlines.

At present, Air Malta is about 50 per cent more expensive than the budget airlines. With no in-flight service it is, as they say, a no-brainer.

This seems rather akin to the executives who came in to destroy RBS and building societies: they get a huge salary, with bonuses, change a working system, make it collapse, then exit smartly with a large “gratuity” and a “thank you very much, it was nice to do business, who can I destroy next?”

The point is that many people will now tell their friends not to use Air Malta.

Bad news travels very fast!