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How Mauritius is using the lockdown
While the world remains a standstill for the travel industry, many destinations, including Mauritius, are working as normal to lure in tourists when travel is safe to do so. The Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority (MTPA) revealed in a statement that Mauritius is open for business as airlines and tour operators continue to take holiday b… read more
Outlook for the African Airlines
As with IATA’s financial forecast for the Middle East, the organisation’s estimates for Africa also make for grim reading. It found the continent’s airlines could lose $6 billion of passenger revenue compared to 2019, which is $2bn more than was predicted at the start of April.
Al Bakri said: “Airlines in Africa are struggling for survival… read more
Air Mauritius Enters Voluntary Administration
Air Mauritius is currently under voluntary administration. Amidst the Covid-19 crisis, the Mauritian national carrier wishes to give itself the necessary breathing space and set the conducive conditions for restructuring opportunities in order to stay afloat.
Sattar Hajee Abdoula, FCA and Arvindsingh K. Gokhool, FCCA have been appoi… read more
Mauritius: New cruise terminal under construction
Cruises are more and more important for sea facing countries in Africa. Mauritius, being a cruise destination (even to exchange passengers) since years saw itself forced to invest into new infrastructure.
The Mauritius Port Authority is currently building a 7,500 sq meter new cruise terminal at the Port Louis harbour. The cap… read more
Mauritius airport back open
At 10: 30am local time, the Mauritius authorities have declared operations at the airport as safe and have reopened the same. The shut down had lasted almost 24 hrs. A lot of airplanes are standed in the region, for instance at La Reunion or Madagascar, even in Mombasa - Kenya. It will take quite a time to come back to normal schedule.
Mauritius airport closed
Having tropical cyclone Calvinia in the vicinity of Mauritius, the Mauritius authorities have decided to close the airport of the island. Airlines like SAA, Kenya Airways, Lufthansa, Eurowings, Condor, Edelweiss, Austrian, Turkish Airlines, Air Austral, etc. cannot operate into the island anylonger.
SAA has planned some extra flights for t… read more
Air Seychelles receives secon A320neo
Turkish Airlines changes ops to Madagascar and Mauritius
Turkish Airlines has already changed since late October 2019 ist operations to Madagascar, as the airline reduces its Istanbul – Mauritius – Antananarivo service.
Since 19OCT19, this routing is reduced from 5 to 3 weekly, on board Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The airline had operated in last European winter 2018/19 this routi… read more
Mauritius Metro Express inaugurated
Last month, the new Metro Express has launched its operations on Mauritius.
In 1964, all railroad facilities had been dismantled on Mauritius island; the railroad was unable to compete with growing indivual traffic. Of course this has changed over the last years and along with increasing demand of public transport and the ong… read more
Radisson debuts in Reunion Island with the opening of Radisson Hotel Saint Denis
Radisson Hotel Group marks its debut on the tropical island of Réunion with the opening of Radisson Hotel Saint Denis. The Group now boasts a portfolio of six hotels across three Indian Ocean islands, including Mauritius and Madagascar, in this popular and captivating region.
Nestled in the north end of Saint-Denis, th… read more
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