Finance Minister Accused Of Misleading Parliament On Air Malta Chair’s Alleged €21,500-A-Month Salary
Finance Minister Clyde Caruana has recently been accused of misleading parliament regarding the Air Malta chair’s alleged €21,500-a-month salary.
Just before the summer recess, Caruana had told Parliament that Air Malta Chairman David Curmi was not being paid for his role.
However, a recent FOI request filed by The Shift News has found that the chairman is being paid as much as €21,500 a month.
Answering a parliamentary question, Caruana had said that Curmi is not getting any renumeration, as seen in PQ10709. However, the acquired contract showed a very different reality than what was initially communicated to the public.
This means that at €21,500 a month, Curmi would be getting over €250,000 a year – meaning he’s paid over €100 per hour for his work at Air Malta.
Even though Curmi was entrusted with practically saving the failing airline, Air Malta has sunk deeper into its finance fiasco, as it is set to be dissolved in the coming months.
Meanwhile, the Maltese islands are set to have a new national airline by the end of this year, replacing what we currently know as Air Malta, as a restructured company is currently in the pipeline.
This will likely coincide with the end of Curmi’s contract, which is running for a total of three years, and had commenced in 2021.
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