The Prime Minister, along with a couple of his senior cohort ministers, undertook a trip to Tripoli. However,this journey took place a mere 24 hours before the renewed inaugural Air Malta flight to Tripoli – a truly momentous occasion for all concerned but, more so, for the regeneration of Air Malta’s perilous financial affairs with this highly lucrative (some may say profiteering) route.

Is it just me that thinks the Prime Minister should perhaps have delayed his departure to coincide with this highly significant occasion and show solidarity of and support with Air Malta by joining the airline at this memorable time by ensuring his presence on this special flight instead of preferring to steal Air Malta’s thunder, to coin a phrase, by arriving in Tripoli a day earlier and, more crucially, by choosing to fly there with a rival airline (Medavia), or at least on one of their aircraft, according to reports in The Times?

Colour me cynical if you must but could his reluctance to travel with Air Malta have anything to do with the fact that during this delicate yet fateful period of “restructuring” he could not face the very people who may be about to lose their job, as in those who know they are, via (in)voluntary redundancy, or those not yet aware and who may be about to get a nasty Christmas present courtesy of enforced redundancy?

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