I wonder if MK was in a better financial situation, they would have resumed MEL-MRU. Though their current arrangement with VA would be suffice. MK is definitely in a better financial situation, but they currently lack the fleet to start new routes. They've already ordered 3 A350s to be delivered as...
Jump to postInteresting. Do you know if Air Mauritius has a plan to replace its A319s ? I know that before covid, they launched a corridor between Africa and Asia by adding flights to Maputo, Dar Es Salaam. Kigali was also on their plan and MK, KQ, SAA and RwandAir wanted to create an alliance. However they ca...
Jump to postAccording Times Aerospace (often they have good sources about African, South Asia and Middle East Aviation), Air Mauritius plans to resume Brussels, Milan, Munich and Rome services Air Mauritius reconquering its markets Air Mauritius is capitalising on both regional and international growth in air ...
Jump to postDo you know if MK have any plans to return to Germany or have they surrendered the direct market to Condor, Discover (Lufthansa)? I know they were making noises about attempting AMS again, but slot restrictions would probably put the breaks on that in the near future. Further expansion in Europe fo...
Jump to postAir Mauritius recently announced the resumption of a seasonal service to Rome as from October 2024. 2 weekly flights will be operated until April 2025 with an A339. https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240206-mknw24fco It will certainly provide a much required boost to Mauritius on the Italian market, whi...
Jump to post2x A332, 2x A339 and 2x A359. Seems like a strange long haul fleet to have - 6 of one type would for sure be far more logical? Air Mauritius currently owns 4x A359 and 2x A339, with 3 more A359s to be delivered by 2027. The 2x A332 are being leased for 3 years for MK to cater for the increased dema...
Jump to postWhile I agree that ET does pose a greater threat to MK than most airlines you have mentioned, it is surprising from an outsiders point of view to seen that EK, who would also directly compete with MK on routes such as LHR, CDG, GVA, BOM, DEL is allowed to fly 2xA380s. In my opinion, there must be o...
Jump to postI don't understand why the Government of Mauritius is so hesitant to give landing rights to Ethiopian Airlines, for the so called protection of Air Mauritius, while they allow other international airlines to serve the country. Over the years, airlines such as Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa (later Eur...
Jump to postWhatever demand is there would most likely be from MEL, and SYD in 2nd place. Connecting via PER would probably be more of a hassle than just connecting via DXB/SIN/BKK Ethiopian is considering starting services to Australia in a year or two, preferably via SIN. It would however add about 1000km to...
Jump to postOutbound from ADD, the block time with a wide body to SYD is 15:20 hours so considering that North America is the same, I would reckon it would need a refueling stop somewhere en-route. But for the return SYD-ADD sector, it should be fine but with a small payload cargo restriction if flight is heav...
Jump to postEarly reports are that Air Mauritius are captalising on QF and SA not servicing the african market ex Perth Increasing to 3 flights per week from Feb 24 Flights will be increased to thrice weekly as from early December 2023, with the additional flight being operated by an A350-900 (instead of the r...
Jump to postEarly reports are that Air Mauritius are captalising on QF and SA not servicing the african market ex Perth Increasing to 3 flights per week from Feb 24 Flights will be increased to thrice weekly as from early December 2023, with the additional flight being operated by an A350-900 (instead of the r...
Jump to postIt has baffled my why Air Mauritius has not been a bigger player between JNB and PER via its MRU hub. Guess aircraft shortage is a factor, but surely even a 5 weekly service to PER would work, to capture a piece of this market. Has to be the aircraft... Never flown them but on the list, looks a gre...
Jump to postA colleague of mine recently spoke with the Air Mauritius sales manager and was told that MK are in negotiations to move to LGW. He said MK can operate daily to LGW cheaper than 5 a week to LHR. Makes sense, MRU is a leisure market. It's not a major premium market with lots of business travel. Plus...
Jump to postA CDG-TNR/RUN/MRU-PER flight would be very cool to see. AF already has a codeshare with MK on the MRU-PER route, but I doubt that AF would actually serve the route with its own aircraft via any of its South West Indian Ocean destinations. UU's flight between RUN and SYD were not a great success and...
Jump to postVistara will be launching 5 weekly flights between Mumbai and Mauritius operated by its newly received A312LR as from 26 March 2023. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/vistara-announces-mumbai-mauritius-flight-service-from-march-26/articleshow/97762137.c...
Jump to postAre they planning get A320 at all? If they wanted to bring back CPT, DUR and other African destinations they need this plane rather than the widebodies. Dur had 3/4 times weekly pre COVID and CPT roughly similar, so without this plane that's alot travel not being served at all They're already bring...
Jump to postInteresting plans from Air Mauritius according to this article from October last year for 2023: https://defimedia-info.translate.goog/tourisme-un-plan-elabore-pour-attirer-davantage-de-touristes?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp To summarise: ⋅ Plan to le...
Jump to postIs there any news about Air Mauritius returning to AMS? According to this article MK want to try the MRU-AMS secondary hub again. I'm a bit surprised if this is something they are perusing given that it wasn't that successful. https://defimedia-info.translate.goog/tourisme-un-plan-elabore-pour-atti...
Jump to postQuite funny, when you see that Emirates, Saudia, Air France (ok in code share with MK), Kenya Airways, Turkish Airlines and British Airways serve MRU. I have some questions. Emirates has been operating on the Dubai-Mauritius route for 20 years, it's well-established and collaborates significantly w...
Jump to postI don't have many doubt that RwandAir will able to fill its Paris route, but the route will be profitable ? I would prefer to see Magadascar (for trafic mainly to and from France and India) and Mauritius (for trafic mainly from or to France, UK and India.) instead of MPM and LAD. Flights to TNR are...
Jump to post9252fly wrote:It seems their only widebody market is a competitive one between RUN and mainland France.
Flew Air Austral again JNB-RUN-JNB on their a220 last month. Was a great flight, with an almost full load on both legs. A great product. I've no idea on profitability but I think their regional routes like JNB, DZA, TNR are based around a mix of holiday makers and VFR. They've served BKK for a whil...
Jump to postDALCE wrote:Not true, the 340’s give flexibility in the network, and Edelweiss does not need 6 widebodies at the moment. During peaks, they are leasing in 777’s from LX. This autumn 777 do runs to MRU,HER,LCA etc.
Longhaul has been a financial killer for these small island carriers. Look at nearby Air Mauritius which also fell into administration and its €240mil bailout currently in progress having over stretched its network to Europe, Asia and Australia, or the Maldives which eventually gave up on the idea ...
Jump to postThere was a Spanish airline flying to Mauritius before, maybe now it's time for Iberia to try to fill some seats flying there 3-4 times a week. IAG does not have a big presence in East Africa or Indian Ocean, so maybe they could try something in the future to NBO, or JRO-DAR, but now the situation ...
Jump to postAirdolomiti wrote:Visit to Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius: AZ FCO-MPM, MD TNR-CIA
Mauritius and Seychelles are presently on the " Red list " of countries as far as UK arrivals in concerned, meaning anyone arriving from there has to fork out £1750 and stay in a government-sourced hotel for 10 days. But perhaps points to serve in a year or two. On another note, this &quo...
Jump to postDoes anyone have news about Air Mauritius, which a/c are they currently operating and to where? Air Mauritius is currently operating its fleet of A350-900 (4 in all, including the ones previously leased to SA), A330-900 (2 aircrafts), A330-200 (2 currently in its fleet, with one to be sold) and ATR...
Jump to postMoments of crisis bring about some great shifts. Talks are underway with the government of Mauritius about the revival of the island nation’s state carrier, which was put into administration last month, Ethiopian [Airlines] Chief Executive Officer Tewolde GebreMariam said in an interview on Tuesday...
Jump to postThey've applied for MRU, LVI and DAR on 7 February and MPM, LUN and LLW on 14 February. So some of this might be just in conjunction with SAA. If Mango starts MRU, Mauritius will be seeing a 'high' rise in the number of seats from South Africa. As from March, SA will be operating 5 of its 7 weekly ...
Jump to postAs from March 2020
SA will operate 5 of its 7 weekly flights to Mauritius with its A350, with the 2 other flights being operated with an A340-300.
https://www.routesonline.com/news/38/ai ... =Mauritius
With South African Airways struggling in those past months and the possibility of it going bankrupt existing, despite the setting up of a business rescue plan, various opportunities exist for other airlines who might increase, or even launch service, to South Africa. Some airlines which could benefi...
Jump to postWow! Mauritius + MK are taking a great care of every visitor - a first in Africa! With all the developments made by your country in the last 10 years (especially at the Doing Business ranking), citizens all deserve to hold the 2nd most powerful passport in Africa... What are MK priorities before th...
Jump to postThanks a ton 3BNBE for these precious infos, dare I say, as usual :smile: Jeez... it must have been a nightmare to deal with! Since December is a high season for travels in/from Europe - to warmer places, how can Mauritian Government prevent this from happening or MK entices pax to extend their sta...
Jump to postIn Mauritius a few days ago it was due to a typhoon that flights had to be postponed, do you know more about this incident in C.V.? Not really an incident, more like a weather hazard. Cyclones are regular from November to April in that part of the Indian Ocean, and with a cyclone warning (class 3 o...
Jump to postMK had to shut down ops for a few days: https://atcnews.org/2019/12/30/mauritius-forced-to-halt-air-traffic-as-cyclone-calvinia-approaches/ Hope that codeshares were suggested! Flights to Reunion and Rodrigues were those mainly affected at start but on the 30th all flights were cancelled due to the...
Jump to postMauritius got better within those 10 years: lower unemployment, lower poverty rate, median income rising and diversification of the economy. The small African island will also soon become a high income economy and is taking steps for more income equality (free education till tertiary, higher pension...
Jump to postTwo Emirates A380s are currently enroute to MRU. 4 EK A380s will be on ground at the same time. Any reason for this? MRU only has one A380 stand. It'll be quite a sight to see 4 A380's at a relatively small airport. Since there was a cyclone (class 3 warning) in Mauritius on the 30th December, the ...
Jump to postMK tried MEL previous was never successful, couldn’t see that on the radar anytime soon. MK stopped MEL together with GVA, BLR, MAA and DUR(where flights have been resumed now) in 2012 when it was in a very bad financial situation and with high kerosene prices and its A340s with a bad product. Now ...
Jump to postThere are a few reports of SAA in financial trouble, which has been the case for a few years. However Flight Centre is now decided not to sell SAA tickets. https://www.ft.com/content/04f30ea8-1140-11ea-a225-db2f231cfeae https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/alitalia-and-south-african...
Jump to postMaybe South African Airways which has huge amounts of debts and can't survive without constant government aid.
The recent strikes have rendered it even more vulnerable, and there are various doubts for the future.
Even its CEO was thinking of giving up at some point.
Will HKG revert to 7 weekly flights though?
Jump to postFrom Mauritius in South West Indian Ocean: •MK MRU-MLE(3× weekly A319) This will enable tourists to combine both Mauritius and Maldives as touristic destination and South African passengers to Maldives may also transit in MRU •MK MRU-ICN(2× weekly A330-900) A route linking Mauritius and South Korea ...
Jump to postNah. I think SAA will deploy the A359 on the HKG route and could reduce it due to the new Guangzhou route. But I get where you going with the India flight via MRU. The A359, which will be leased from Air Mauritius, will be deployed solely on the JNB-JFK route according to SAA. The latter has alread...
Jump to post... connections from Singapore and Perth, which are 2 rather big markets from South Africa. I'm curious, why is Singapore-SouthAfrica a big market? Not that big, but about 45,000 O&D passengers one-way between South Africa and Singapore, mainly South Africans going to South East Asia for holida...
Jump to postSaa,Air Mauritius exempted to form joint venture. https://www.iol.co.za/business-report/companies/saa-air-mauritius-granted-exemption-to-form-a-joint-venture-on-various-routes-35789031 I feel like this will mostly benefit Air Mauritius. The unprofitable route of SA to HKG might be dropped in favour...
Jump to postAir Mauritius have received their first refurbished A340 with some photos posted onto their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AirMauritius/posts/10157288351953820 Flying them to TNR tomorrow (in business) and I seem to be relegated to an A330-200 when every other flight this week is A340, A35...
Jump to postIs it confirmed that MK will lease the 2 A350s to SA? Actually both aircrafts which are to be delivered to MK by the end of this year already have their tails in Air Mauritius' livery. This news was originally spread by media from Reunion island before being taken by other media. Neither Air Mauriti...
Jump to postKUL to US West Coast maybe with AirAsia X
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