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Fiasco At Air Seychelles

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At the end of April, with unusually little fanfare considering that the global travel media were on the Seychelles’ for the 2015 edition of the carnival, did a second Airbus A320 join the Air Seychelles fleet. In December had the airline launched new destinations, Dar es Salaam with two flights a week and also Antananarivo and Mumbai, all reached with their first such aircraft besides the already regular three flights a week from Mahe to Mauritius. As reported here at the time and then again more recently, was Air Seychelles eying to increase the number of flights from Mahe to Mumbai, Mauritius and Antananarivo. The added, fourth flight to Mumbai, is already on line now as is the fourth flight to Mauritius while a third flight will be added to the Madagassy capital on the 03rd of July. The additional regional flights are not only aiming to bring more traffic into the Seychelles but to generate more transit traffic in Mahe to for instance Mumbai and from early July