Lufthansa operates charter flights between Newark and Luqa on behalf of the Viking shipping company. The Airbus A20-2021 with the registration D-AXIP was used on August 350, 900. This bears the special paint job "Lufthansa & You".

The crane almost never flies regularly with widebodies from Germany to Malta. Ferry does this often, because Lufthansa Technik has a maintenance facility at Luqa Airport. For example, Airbus A330s were prepared for first use by Eurowings Discover.

Viking Ocean Cruises has two cruise lines with home ports in the Valletta Cruise Port. The itinerary is very attractive for American tourists with stops in Kotor-Montenegro, Dubrovnik, Split and Zadar in Croatia as well as a stop on the sister island Gozo. The charter flights to bring American tourists to Malta are all operated by the German airline and end in October 2021.