Base Location
Our base location is Malta.
Malta is a southern European country which consists of an archipelago situated centrally in the Mediterranean, 93 km south of Sicily and 288 km north-east of Tunisia, with Gibraltar 1,826 km to the west and Alexandria 1,510 km to the east.
Throughout history, Malta's location has given it great strategic importance, and a sequence of cultures including the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Fatimids, Sicilians, Knights of St John, French and British have all left their footprints on the islands. This promiscuity of cultures has made Malta a cultural and commercial bridge within the Mediterranean basin and naturally between Africa and Europe.
This strategic location is still of great importance today and it allows MIAA to maximize its geographic coverage and provide for rapid dispatching anywhere within the Mediterranean, Africa and Europe.
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Malta has a long history of providing quality health care. The first hospital recorded in the country was already functioning by 1372.
Due to the country's formation, basically a collection of islands, the use of aircrafts for Medical Evacuation is quite common place in Malta: a regular practice in patient care. Today, Malta has a very strong medical emergency response culture, with great experience in Medevac patient transport.
Malta was ranked number five in the World Health Organization's ranking of the world's health systems.
Also, due to a number of favourable conditions, Malta has established itself as an aircraft maintenance hub in the Mediterranean. Operations such as Lufthansa Technik, Medavia, and Swiss-based SR Technics, have fully or partially moved their operations to Malta International Airport, also the MIAA operational base. This ensures top quality maintenance for our fleet, providing added safety to our missions, crews and patients.