Air Mauritius
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{{Infobox Airline
|airline=Air Mauritius
|logo=Mklogo.gif
|logo_size=238
|fleet_size=15
|destinations=25
|IATA=MK
|ICAO=MAU
|callsign=AIRMAURITIUS
|parent=Air Mauritius Holding Ltd<ref>{{cite conference
| title = Air Mauritius Annual Report 2006-2007
| pages = pg. 132
| publisher = [[Air Mauritius]]
| date = June 2007
| url = http://www.airmauritius.com/investors/MKAnnualReport06_07.pdf
| accessdate = 2008-04-03 }}</ref>
|founded=14 June 1967
|commenced=August 1972
|headquarters=[[Port Louis]], [[Mauritius]]
|key_people=Sanjay Buckhory (Chairman),
Manoj Ujoodha (Executive Director)
|hubs=[[Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport]]
|frequent_flyer=KestrelFlyer
|lounge=
|alliance=
|website= http://www.airmauritius.com/
}}
'''Air Mauritius Limited''' is the national airline of [[Mauritius]], based in [[Port Louis]], the island's capital. It operates regional and international services to over 30 destinations with 80 flights per week. Its main base is [[Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport]], Mauritius<ref name="FI">[[Flight International]] 27 March 2007</ref>.
The airline has the phaeton rubicola or Paille-en-Queue, a fish-eating tropical bird, for its symbol.
== History ==
{{Fact|date=April 2007}}
Air Mauritius was established on [[14 June]] [[1967]] initially as a handling agent. It modestly started airline operations in August 1972 with a six seater [[Piper PA-31 Navajo]] aircraft leased from [[Air Madagascar]] on a flight from Mauritius to [[Réunion]].
International operations started in 1977 using a [[wet lease]]d [[Boeing 707]] from [[British Airtours]]<ref name="FI"/>.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the airline operated [[Boeing 707]]s and [[Boeing 747]]s, in their ''SP'' configuration (SP meaning ''Special Performance''), on longer routes. All the 747s have been decommissioned since and have been replaced by the [[Airbus A340]]s as from 1994, with [[Boeing 767]]s introduced in 1988, [[ATR 42]]s introduced in 1997, an [[ATR 72]] introduced in 2002 for inter-island routes and [[Airbus A320#A319|Airbus A319]] for regional flights on the African continent. Air Mauritius was the first airline of the southern hemisphere to fly the A340. As a matter of fact in December 2006, the ever last Airbus A340-300 type was built and delivered to Air Mauritius (tail number 3B-NBJ named 'Le Chamarel'). The airline is also one of the few airlines in the world ([[Aeroflot]], [[British Airways]] and [[Air Sahara]] being among the others) that have combined airplane service with [[helicopter]] flights, using the [[Bell Aircraft Corporation]] range helicopters.
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Air Mauritius has a large presence in [[Europe]]an, [[African]] and [[Indian Ocean]] country airports, and the company performs a range of services in Mauritius for international airlines.
In 1988 one of the two Boeing 767-200ER (tail number 3B-NAL;named the `City of Port Louis`) set a new distance record for commercial twinjets flying from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Mauritius. Distance flown was 8,727 statute miles (14,042 km). Duration of the flight was 16 hours 27 minutes.
In 1995 the airline was listed on the stock exchange of Mauritius. The airline is owned by Air Mauritius Holding (51%), publicly held (19.97%), Port Louis Fund (6.32%), the State Investment Corporation (4.72%), government of Mauritius (4.53%), Rogers and Company (4.28%), [[British Airways]] (3.84%), [[Air France]] (2.78%) and [[Air India]] (2.56%). It employs 2,761 staff (at March 2007)<ref name="FI"/>.
Air Mauritius launched its new [[Airbus A340|Airbus A340-300E]]s to [[London]] [[Heathrow]] and [[Hong Kong]] in December 2006. It retrofited all other [[Airbus A340|Airbus A340-313X]] in the fleet during the course of the year 2007. Air Mauritius has added two [[Airbus A330|Airbus A330-200]] to replace the [[Boeing 767|Boeing 767-200ER]] in late 2007. It had been noted that since February 2007 it had reduced operations using the two Boeing 767-23B(ER). Air Mauritius is using its A340-300s on these routes until delivery of the two A330-200(twinjet) which will be used to operate flights on India, Malaysia, Singapore and Perth routes.
==Destinations==
As of April 2008, Air Mauritius operates scheduled services to the following destinations:<ref>{{cite web
| title = Air Mauritius route map
| publisher = [[Air Mauritius]]
| url = http://www.airmauritius.com/home/map.html
| accessdate = 2008-04-03}}</ref>
{| class="collapsible wikitable collapsed" style="width: 90%; border: #999 solid 1px; text-align: lcenter; margin-bottom: 0; margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
! colspan="5" style="background: #8B8589;"| '''Air Mauritius destinations'''
|- style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#D3D3D3"
| '''Country'''
| '''City'''
| '''Airport'''
| '''Notes'''
|- style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#DDDDDD"
| colspan="4" style="text-align: center;"| [[Mauritius]]
|-
|[[Mauritius]]
|[[Mahébourg]]
|[[Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport]]
|'''Hub'''
|-
|
|[[Rodrigues (island)|Rodrigues]]
|[[Rodrigues Island Airport]]
|
|-
|- style="font-weight:bold; background-color:#DDDDDD"
| colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | [[Africa]]
|-
|[[Kenya]]
|[[Nairobi]]
|[[Jomo Kenyatta International Airport]]
|
|-
|[[Madagascar]]
|[[Antananarivo]]
|[[Ivato Airport]]
|
|-
|[[Réunion]]
|[[Saint-Denis, Réunion|Saint-Denis]]
|[[Roland Garros Airport]]
|
|-
|
|[[Saint-Pierre, Réunion|Saint-Pierre]]
|[[Pierrefonds Airport]]
|
|-
|[[South Africa]]
|[[Cape Town]]
|[[Cape Town International Airport]]
|
|-
|
|[[Durban]]
|[[Durban International Airport]]
|
|-
|
|[[Johannesburg]]
|[[OR Tambo International Airport]]
|
|-
|- style="font-weight:bold; background-color: #DDDDDD"
| colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | [[Asia]]
|-
|[[China]]
|[[Hong Kong]]
|[[Hong Kong International Airport]]
|
|-
|[[India]]
|[[Bangalore]]
|[[Bengaluru International Airport]]
|
|-
|
|[[Chennai]]
|[[Chennai International Airport]]
|
|-
|
|[[Delhi]]
|[[Indira Gandhi International Airport]]
|
|-
|
|[[Mumbai]]
|[[Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport]]
|
|-
|[[Malaysia]]
|[[Kuala Lumpur]]
|[[Kuala Lumpur International Airport]]
|
|-
|[[Singapore]]
|[[Singapore]]
|[[Changi Airport]]
|
|-
|[[United Arab Emirates]]
|[[Dubai]]
|[[Dubai International Airport]]
|
|-
|- style="font-weight:bold; background-color: #DDDDDD"
| colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | [[Europe]]
|-
|[[France]]
|[[Paris]]
|[[Roissy-Charles de Gaulle Airport]]
|
|-
|[[Germany]]
|[[Frankfurt]]
|[[Frankfurt am Main International Airport]]
|
|-
|
|[[Munich]]
|[[Franz Josef Strauss International Airport]]
|
|-
|[[Italy]]
|[[Milan]]
|[[Malpensa International Airport]]
|
|-
|
|[[Rome]]
|[[Leonardo Da Vinci International Airport]]
|
|-
|[[Spain]]
|[[Madrid]]
|[[Barajas International Airport]]
|
|-
|[[Switzerland]]
|[[Geneva]]
|[[Geneva Cointrin International Airport]]
|
|-
|
|[[Zürich]]
|[[Kloten Airport]]
|
|-
|[[United Kingdom]]
|[[London]]
|[[Heathrow Airport]]
|
|-
|- style="font-weight:bold; background-color: #DDDDDD"
| colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | [[Oceania]]
|-
|[[Australia]]
|[[Melbourne]]
|[[Melbourne Tullamarine Airport]]
|
|-
|
|[[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]]
|[[Perth Airport]]
|
|-
|
|[[Sydney]]
|[[Kingsford Smith International Airport]]
|
|}
== Fleet ==
[[Image:Air Mauritius A340-300 .jpg|thumb|Airbus A340-300]]
Air Mauritius fleet consists of the following aircraft (at May 2008):
{| class="toccolours" border="1" cellpadding="3" style="border-collapse:collapse"
|+ '''Air Mauritius Fleet'''
|- bgcolor=lightgrey
!Aircraft
!In Service
!On Order
!Passengers
|-
|[[Airbus A319|Airbus A319-100]]
|2
|0
|120
|-
|[[Airbus A330|Airbus A330-200]]
|1
|1
|275
|-
|[[Airbus A340|Airbus A340-300]]
|5
|0
|298
|-
|[[Airbus A340|Airbus A340-300E]]
|2
|0
|300
|-
|[[ATR 72|ATR 72-500]]
|2
|0
|72
|-
|[[Bell 206|Bell 206 JetRanger]]
|3
|0
|4
|}
== Retired Fleet ==
*1 [[Piper PA-31 Navajo]]
*2 [[Boeing 707|Boeing 707-300]]
*2 [[Boeing 707|Boeing 707-400]]
*3 [[Boeing 747|Boeing 747 (SP)]]
*2 [[Boeing 767-200ER]]
*1 [[Boeing 767-300ER]]
*1 [[Airbus A340-300]]
*2 [[ATR-42]]
For a small population of about 1.2 million in Mauritius, Air Mauritius is generally considered as being a rather big intercontinental airline.In March 2007 Air Mauritius became the first southern African country airline to fly an all-Airbus fleet for long and medium haul routes.
==Incidents and Accidents==
*On [[30 August]] [[2007]], an [[Airbus A340|Airbus A340-300]] on a flight to [[Hong Kong]] suffered severe turbulence roughly half an hour before landing. 20 people, including cabin crew members, were injured and taken to hospital with 18 later discharged.<ref>"[http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2007/09/03/216451/twenty-hurt-as-air-mauritius-a340-hits-turbulence-near.html Twenty hurt as Air Mauritius A340 hits turbulence near HK]" Flight Global, 03/09/07</ref>
==External links==
*[http://www.airmauritius.com/index.htm?utm_source=wiki&utm_medium=smm&utm_campaign=&utm_content=external_links Air Mauritius]
*[http://www.planespotters.net/Airline/Air-Mauritius Air Mauritius Jet Fleet Detail]
==References==
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