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Malta-based airline Universal Air is next month starting five weekly flights to Greece, increasing the links between the two popular tourism destinations.

The carrier will link Valletta with Corfu three times per week and with Athens twice per week, it stated.

Ryanair adds 4 new Malta routes to Italy and 1 to Greece , by the peak of summer, the airline will be serving 57 routes in 19 countries from Malta

An airliner on an internal flight in Libya was hijacked and diverted to Malta where it landed on Dec. 23, Maltese media reported. 

The Airbus A320 was flying inside Libya for state-owned airline Afriqiyah Airways with 118 people aboard, the reports said. The two hijackers had threatened to blow the plane up, outlets including the Times of Malta reported. 

A passenger plane from Libya has been diverted to Malta in what may amount to hijacking, the latter country's Prime Minister has said.

The plane, with 118 people on board, has already landed in Malta, according to local media.

The airline Afriqiyah Airways has confirmed the development.

An 84-year-old woman was flown from Manchester to Malta despite her holding an EasyJet boarding pass for Athens, Greece. The airline and airport in England said that the woman, Argyro Aretaki and her family have been compensated after the incident where she was flown to Malta but her luggage went to Athens.