The dispute between the General Workers' Union and Air Malta over the filling of vacancies was solved following a conciliation meeting presided over by Noel Vella, Director of Industrial Relations and Employment, the union said.

As a result of the agreement, Air Malta will be making an internal call for applications from employees who had been carrying out work classified beyond their grade for a year or over to fill the higher grade, the GWU said.

The GWU had accused Air Malta of violating the collective agreement by not promoting workers to the higher grade and had even threatened industrial action.

According to the collective agreement, workers who had been doing work of a higher grade for more than a year should be promoted, the union said.