Air Malta is considering resuming scheduled passenger flights to Libya in 2019, Chief Commercial Officer Paul Sies has confirmed.

Last week, Maltese Minister of Tourism Konrad Mizzi told TVM in an interview that the proposed service may operate between Malta International Airport and Tripoli Mitiga.

"There is a project to resume flights, [it is] still a project however and not confirmed yet," Sies commented in an emailed statement to ch-aviation.

Given the lack of country-wide security, foreign carriers have been hesitant to resume regular flights to Libya. As such, aside from cargo carriers, the only operator to offer regular passenger flights to Libya, at present, is Medavia which runs a daily Beech 1900D-operated return service between Malta and Tripoli Mitiga.