Air Malta will be offering scheduled flights to Tel Aviv shortly, the airline said today.
In a statement announcing the beginning of its summer schedule next Sunday, the airline said it had planned 150 weekly flights to 30 destinations using a fleet of eight aircraft.
It was set to carry over 1.2 million passengers.
The airline said that this summer it had increased frequencies on the Munich, Brussels, Amsterdam, Vienna, Zurich, Rome, Catania, Lyon, Palermo, Prague and Moscow routes.
It would operate with up to double daily flights in peak summer to Munich, Rome and Catania.
Chief Officer Commercial Paul Sies also said that the airline was expecting to announce another new destination for the summer.
Apart from the scheduled services this summer Air Malta also had charter operations to Tel-Aviv, Bucharest, Warsaw, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Corfu Chania and Lourdes.
The Maltese National airline intended to continue codeshare agreements with Air France, Alitalia, Aeroflot, Austrian Airlines, Emirates, Etihad, KLM, Lufthansa, Brussels Airlines, Czech Airlines, Meridiana, Swiss Airlines and Turkish Airlines.