Luqa Airport

The international airport at Luqa, 4mi/7km southwest of Valletta, is used by a number of airlines, and there are regular connections, mainly flown by Air Malta, with Britain, Austria, Switzerland, West Germany, Italy, Tunisia and Libya.

Luqa Airport has gained increased importance with the rapid growth of the tourist trade, a welcome source of the foreign exchange, which Malta so urgently requires.

The Government has accordingly made great efforts to foster the development of tourism; and the successful marketing of Malta's mild and healthy climate and its monuments of the Neolithic period and the period of the Knights brought in 12% of the country's gross national product in 1976 and is likely to earn even more as a result