It has come to a point where a Tunisian spends just as much to come to Malta as he would if he were to visit Djerba, an anonymous writer on website Webmanagercenter wrote.

But Djerba is one of Tunisia’s most important tourist venues and it is 500kms away from the capital. The price of a return ticket to visit Djerba once was 40 dinars, then 75 dinars, now 150 dinars.

“If Tuninter is losing money on other routes,” the anonymous writer, who signed CY, said, “it should not seek to recuperate through the Djerba route.”