With the prospects of tourism slowly opening up, VistaJet has launched a plane-to-yacht service for any vessel owners or charterers to safely arrive to their boat in Malta, without having to adhere to quarantine-measures so long as an agreement is signed not to step on Maltese soil.

Global aviation company VistaJet recently announced its program allowing yacht-owners and charterers to get to their vessel safely. Malta is a popular yacht-hub in the Mediterranean, with 2016 figures showing that 4,879 of 10,000 superyachts globally registered under the Maltese flag.

Complicated travel guidelines for 2020 have resulted in VistaJet launching the scheme, as a means to ferry passengers to their vessels safely.

The process is as follows: all members, together with their guests, need valid passports allowing entry to the island and a health declaration for their flight. Clients must submit their desired flight departure dates and times, and VistaJet says it will handle the rest.

The private jet company, which operates under a ‘pay for hours flown’ share structure, advertises that it will arrange for the flight, provide private customs and VIP lounge on arrival, direct transport from the aircraft to the marina and pre-stock the yacht with preferred items.

Interested partied looking to charter a yacht can also do this through VistaJet’s local agent or a broker of your choice.

The company says its agents will contact customers to arrange the best marina berth, and that customers will need to sign a Safe Passage agreement accepting that guests will not stop anywhere enroute to the yacht, not leave the yacht while moored, and will not sail to local islands and disembark.

Passengers must also declare whether they intend on staying in the marina, sail within Maltese waters, or whether they will be exiting Maltese territorial waters.

The company advertised that Malta has been singled out by the World Health Organisation for its handling of the COVID-19 crisis.

There is currently a commercial flight ban in place until 15th June, however an international business-publication, RobbReport.com, reported that VistaJet worked with Maltese officials to develop this unique program for its members, “which allows them to avoid quarantine by promising to not stop on Maltese soil while in transit to the yacht (this goes for yacht crew, too).