Air Mauritius Overview

Air Mauritius  was established in 1967, it Mauritius’ national flag carrier. The airline happens to be the fourth largest carrier in the region of sub-Saharan Africa. It happens to be the first airline in the world to operate A330neo as well as the A350, Moreover, the airline has partners Johannesburg Perth, Nairobi, Paris, Singapore and Kuala lumpur. The airline offers around 2.3 million seats in an year and carries around 1.7 million passengers in an year. Lastly, Air Mauritius also contributes a lot to economic development of Mauritius as it carries around 44,000 tons of carriage annually. 

Air Mauritius Hub and Destination 

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport, Port Louis, Mauritius is the hub airport of Air Mauritius. The airline provides its passengers the chance to fly directly to 22 destinations in 4 continents. Domestically the airline travels to Port Louis and Rodrigues. The international destinations include Perth, Chengdu, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Paris, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Nairobi, Antananarivo, Kuala Lumpur, Saint-Denis, Saint-Pierre, Mahé, Singapore, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Geneva, Dar es Salaam, and London. 

Air Mauritius Travel Class 

Two cabin classes are available on Air Mauritius  aircrafts. This includes Business class and Economy class.

Business class

Air Mauritius ‘ Business Class is a great cabin for passengers looking for a rich and relaxing journey. At the airport passengers can enjoy perks like priority check-in, priority boarding and relaxation in the Amédee Maingard Lounge at SSR international airport in Mauritius. On-board passengers can enjoy the feel of a personalized cabin service. They can also devour the taste of Mauritian cuisine, it’s rich variety and flavors that makes the meal served on the flight so delicious. Furthermore, for a period of relaxation and entertainment, passengers can indulge in a variety of things. These include a selection of latest international albums as well as high quality, multilingual feature movies. Finally, the seats on the flight are new generation lie-flat seats. Seats are spacious, they provide passengers privacy, with a pitch of 152cm. In addition to this, the seat comes with a massage option, can be adjusted by a remote and has inflatable lumbar pouches for extra support and comfort. 

 Economy class

Air Mauritius ’s Economy Class is a very convenient and comfortable option for passengers. To ensure that the passengers have a relaxing journey a variety of services are available on board. The food menu available for economy class passengers is specifically curated by a chef, it comprises a variety of drinks and main courses. The passengers can watch the latest movies or listen to the latest album if they want some entertainment. The seating in the cabin is spacious, 79cm, and the passengers can fully relax throughout their journey. 

In-Flight Entertainment

For entertainment, Air Mauritius provides passengers of both economy and business class with individual screens and headsets. These are available on Airbus A330/A350/A330neo aircrafts. Moreover passengers have a lot of film options and TV show options to choose from. They also have the availability of the latest music albums from a variety of artists around the world. On the aforementioned aircraft video games are also available now for one or more players. Lastly, wifi is available onboard. However it’s only free for business class and KestrelFlyer Gold members. The rest of the passengers can access wifi but they are required to pay the fee. 

In Flight Food

Air Mauritius provides complimentary drinks/news/snacks to all passengers on international flights. Business class passengers can devour the taste of Mauritian cuisine, it’s rich variety and flavors that makes the meal served on the flight so delicious. The food menu available for economy class passengers is specifically curated by a chef, it comprises a variety of drinks and main courses.

Special meals are also available on board, these meals conform to specific religious, dietary, medical requirements of the passenger. Passengers can put in a request of special means at the time of booking or at least 24 hours prior to the departure of the flight. In case the passenger wants to order a kosher meal, they need to put in a request 48 hours before the flight. Following are the options available for special meal:

Child meal  

• Baby Meal
• Children’s meal 

Dietary meal 

• Low salt meal
• Gluten lactose meal
• Low fat meal
• Low calorie meal
• Diabetic meal
• Bland meal
• Fruit platter meal

Vegetarian meal 

• Asian meal (Hindu)
•  Vegan meal
•  Lacto-ovo meal 
• Vegetarian oriental meal

Religious meal 

• Hindu meal
• Kosher meal
• Muslim meal
• Vegetarian Jain meal

Frequent Flyer Program

Kestrelflyer is the name of Air Mauritius’s Frequent flyer program, this is to reward loyal customers. Passengers can earn miles and Accumulate them every time they fly with the airline. And they can redeem these miles for a lot of privileges. Moreover, some benefits include free tickets, additional baggage allowance, free of grades and much more. Three tiers of memberships are offered under this frequent flyer program. For instance, this includes Red (starting status), Silver (24,000 qualifying miles within a 36-month period) and Gold (100,000 qualifying miles within a 36-month period) accounts.