Today from Aircraft Aviation on Europe we are going back where Air Malta livery started it all till we work to the top (No history about the airline yet.)
Air Malta started with this logo was introduced in 1974 the livery had red with purple background located south east of the Maltese Cross and the text font with Air all red and Malta in purple. With the Maltese Cross it's located at the tail through today's generation symbols our country same goes for pilots and cabin crew lets say in my opinion a Maltese Cross board Air Malta uniform brings me luck have a safer journey if I was an Air Malta employee of a pilot or cabin crew. Anyway the Maltese Cross is at the tail like the Air Malta logo from 1973 then the purple on the south east stretches from the rear, all the way towards the fuselage towards the nose & back up to the tail the purple colour is at the middle while the two reds are on top and bottom then Air Malta logo is next to the door and Malta flay by the flight deck also there is black at the bottom of the front cockpit window with a black circle on the nose cone. As 1989 arrived, it's time for the airline to have a brand new look of their livery with only 11 years till the 21st century we come to this logo.
Air Malta's second livery was introduced in 1989 with Boeing 737-200 and Airbus A320 in 1992 with 3 blue stripes all around the bottom of the fuselage starting from the end of the rear all away round to the other side, Air Malta font next to the front doors then the aircraft has coat of arms from the villages of Malta we will mention about one aircraft later, red background & Maltese Cross at the tail same for the engine. When I was a kid I, I use to go mad of Air Malta in a shocking way I saw in TV, online and airline magazines because I love the airline so much when I spot the tail. And now the logo at the present time.
In March 2012 we have a brand new look for Air Malta however I'm not going to mention about the look of the currently Air Malta livery because I have already mentioned a million times I don't want my blogs to look boring about Air Malta all the time as I am focusing on something else with different airlines for Blogger. The font of the logo is not in capital letters at the start with A then M also it's a one word sentence just like the 1973 livery but I have to respect it being the first one. Also with the font it's strange "air"is different than "malta" that's because with Malta it's in bold font as Air is not. The Maltese Cross reminds me of the last two Air Malta logos somehow a bit smaller with beautiful background with green, blue and orange stripe look.
Air Malta needed to think "What can we do for Air Malta to make this special for the airline? We have 9H-AEO in special Valletta brand but something else we need to promote our company." Until a light bulb flashes that Air Malta is reaching 40 years in 2014 but Air Malta need to pick one of their fleet to be in "Retro Livery" All of their fleets are now in current livery till they released there is one airliner from Mexico has borrowed their aircraft by Interjet for 2 year leased period by Air Malta till we come at my photo. Also this wasn't also requested by Air Malta, it was also done & requested by a Facebook Group for anyone wants Air Malta in retro livery. The first part isn't official it's in my opinion.
(Somehow my scanner doesn't work so I just took a picture from my phone.)
What we have here is 9H-AEI "Rabat - Citta Vittoria" new to Air Malta in 26th April 2004. The photo I took this was in late August 2005 until November 2010 it spend 4 years with Interjet as XA-SOB it has interesting destinations within Mexico, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Peru and the United States of America. When an airline gets to their new home country, it felt like the airline gets homesick if the country the airline is from is wonderful & travel safer destinations. However, this is when Air Malta reaches it's 40th Anniversary in 2014. After XA-SOB was withdrawn, the project was underway.
In 10th February 2014, Interjet withdrawn's XA-SOB, the aircraft returned back to Air Malta on 6th April 2014 still in Interjet livery then it went to Ostrava, Czech Republic being painted into 1974 livery that is until 16th April 2014 Air Malta flight KM40 was ready to head back home to Malta with a low flying pass on Runway 31 then flew over Valletta Grand Harbour, Sliema, Mosta, Qrendi San Giljan and Birzebbugia. As we are coming up to 2017, 9H-AEI is still going strong for Air Malta continuing to have her flying future all over the Maltese Islands. If you wan't to find out more about the history of Air Malta, click the link will explain more about Air Malta with the livery & the history of our only airline.
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