Bus service operator Arriva has asked ticket retailers to return all their stock to the company by Thursday in a move that fuelled reports about its plans to leave Malta.

The company is deadlocked in talks about with the government on changes to the routes and the return of bendy buses. The company has made huge losses over the past two years and disagrees with the subsidy it has been offered for the adjustment of the routes.

However GWU section secretary Jeremy Camilleri said that company officials said in a meeting last Thursday that the company was not going anywhere.

mmicallef@timesofmalta.com

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