Originally Posted by hamallu
Cargo and transit pax, especially to Australia. There are lots and lots of Maltese emmigrants in Australia, IIRC there's actually more Maltese/people of Maltese descent living in Australia than there is in Malta. In fact SQ used to fly SYD-SIN-MLA-AMS back in the days with B742s.
Probably just some of the many reasons as to why Qantas and Air Malta entered a codesharing agreement in July 2005.