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Avion Express Malta

IATA 4X ICAO MLH Malta · avionexpress.aero (opens in a new tab)

Publishes nothing about carrying a passenger’s own wheelchair. You have to ask them.

Avion Express Malta publishes no mobility-aid policy. Its website works and we read it, but it says nothing about carrying a passenger’s own manual or powered wheelchair — no battery rules, no size limits, no notice period. That silence is the finding, and it is why almost every field below is blank. Silence is not permission. Ask them directly, get the answer in writing, and read the international baseline so you know what should apply.

Wet-lease / ACMI operator. Avion Express Malta usually flies aircraft and crew on behalf of other airlines. If your ticket says another airline, that airline’s wheelchair policy governs your booking — but the aircraft’s physical hold limits are this operator’s.

Who to contact

Transcribed from the airline’s own pages, exactly as it labels them.

Avion Express Malta shares the group site avionexpress.aero and has no accessibility page, phone line or email of its own. The group's charter passenger service line and its Travel Information (including its wheelchair rules) are explicitly scoped to flights where “avion express” (IATA prefix X9) is shown next to the flight number, so they do not cover Avion Express Malta's 4X flights.

Every unanswered field below has the same explanation: Avion Express Malta (4X) publishes no passenger or mobility-aid policy of its own; the group Travel Information page states it applies only to flights marked “avion express” (IATA prefix X9).

Powered wheelchairs & batteries

The part that goes wrong. Battery chemistry and watt-hours decide whether your chair flies, and the rules differ depending on whether the battery can be removed.

Spare batteries permittedmaximum number under any published configuration
Non-spillable batteriesgel, AGM, sealed lead-acid, dry cell
Size limit for a powered chair
Not published

Manual wheelchairs

Booking & cost

On board

Worth knowing

ACMI/wet-lease operator: Avion Express Malta is the Maltese AOC of Avion Express, a narrow-body ACMI (“airline for airlines”) group that also holds Lithuanian and Brazilian AOCs. It flies on behalf of contracting airlines, and the contracting airline's mobility-aid policy is the one that applies — passengers should read that airline's accessibility pages. Avion Express Malta publishes nothing of its own: the group site has one Travel Information page and it states in terms that it covers only flights marked “avion express” (X9), not 4X. The sister record avion-express (X9) does carry a full published wheelchair policy, but it must not be read across to 4X flights.

Sources

Every figure above traces to one of these.

  1. s1 Avion Express — About Us (three active AOCs in Lithuania, Malta and Brazil; narrow-body ACMI operator) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2026-07-29
  2. s2 Avion Express — Contact Us (Avion Express Malta, NuBis centre, Mosta Road, Lija LJA 9012, Malta) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2026-07-29
  3. s3 Avion Express — Travel Information (states it applies only to flights marked “avion express” / IATA prefix X9) (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2026-07-29
  4. s4 Avion Express — Homepage, “Airline for Airlines” ACMI operator (opens in a new tab) · official · read 2026-07-29

Record quality

Record status no public policy · confidence low · 4 official sources · 1 contact · 0% of the fields this reference tracks are answered. Newest source read 29 July 2026, the day before this page was built. What these mean.