Sunday 12 August 2018

Air Mauritius opens new routes to Bangkok and Wuhan

Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
                 / KUCINTA SETIA
Distributed to All Press & Travel Professionals



Air Mauritius opens new routes to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi and Wuhan in 2018.

Air Mauritius launches direct non-stop flight from Port Louis to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi on 3 November 2018 using its Airbus A330-900neo aircraft. Prior to this date, the Mauritian national flag carrier flies to Suvarnabhumi with the technical stopover at Singapore Changi Airport on 31 October 2018 using Airbus A330-200 aircraft.

Air Mauritius operates flights to Suvarnabhumi directly on Saturdays and indirectly on Wednesdays via Singapore and returns to Port Louis directly on Sundays and indirectly via Singapore on Thursdays.

The Saturday flight on 3 November 2018 departs from Port Louis at 11.30 pm, arrives in Suvarnabhumi under flight MK642 at 10.25 am on 4 November 2018 before leaving Suvarnabhumi at 12.25 pm and touching down in Port Louis at 5.15 pm local time under MK643.

Passengers leaving for Port Louis from Suvarnabhumi on other days have to board Thai Airways International flight and connect to Air Mauritius' flight from Hong Kong. 

The Wednesday flight on 31 October 2018 under MK642 leaves Port Louis at 8.40 pm, touches down in Singapore at 7.50 am before departing from Singapore at 9 am and arriving in Suvarnabhumi at 10.25 am. Flight MK643 takes off for Singapore from Suvarnabhumi at 12.25 pm, arrives in Singapore at 4 pm before leaving Singapore for Port Louis at 5 pm and landing in Port Louis at 8.10 pm.

According to Air Mauritius, it will deploy A330-900neo aircraft on non-stop once-weekly service to Wuhan on 2 January 2019 and twice-weekly services to Mumbai on 1 November 2018 and Hong Kong on 4 November 2018 as well. The aircraft will also operate flights to Perth, Bengaluru, Chennai, Reunion and its South African destinations.

Air Mauritius A340-300 flight MK690 launches non-stop flight to Wuhan from Port Louis on 11 August 2018 at 8.15 am, arrives in Wuhan Tianhe Airport Terminal 3 at 11.05 pm before leaving Wuhan at 1.05 am on 12 August 2018 and touching down in Port Louis at 7.40 am local time under flight MK691. Outbound flight to Wuhan from Port Louis is on Saturdays while outbound flight to Port Louis from Wuhan is on Sundays. Previously, passengers from Wuhan have to stopover in Hong Kong or Shanghai-Pudong in order to connect to Air Mauritius' flights to Port Louis.

Air Mauritius will operate thrice-weekly A330-900neo flights to Hong Kong from 6 December 2018. As the first Indian Ocean / Africa operator of the aircraft, it expects to receive its first A330-900neo aircraft by October 2018.


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