— Nov
2005 - A new SHORT 360
arriving soon!
The
latest acquisition of a
second 36-seater Shorts SD 360
aircraft to Air Seychelles'
inter-island fleet is a
major investment in providing
more capacity to Praslin.
— Air
Seychelles sponsors SUBIOS
2005, Seychelles Underwater
Festival (19-22 May
2005).
— Air
Seychelles assists
in flights for relief aid in Maldives and
Indonesia... Last week,
on a flight from
Johannesburg, Air
Seychelles benevolently
carried some 15 tonnes
of emergency supplies
destined for the
Banda Aceh region
in Indonesia.
— Seychelles
tourism shining through... The
tourism infrastructure
has been hardly touched
by the tsunami and several
tour operators have been
diverting clients to Seychelles resorts
from the Maldives and Sri Lanka.
— Bishops
and President to lead
Thanksgiving prayers
for Seychelles being
spared the strongest
tsunamis... To read the
full story click here.
Air
Seychelles launches electronic
ticketing for passengers travelling to and from Praslin.
Air Seychelles will suspend its weekly Comores
and Mayotte flights as from April 6 th 2004.
Air
Seychelles, has announced the introduction of its second weekly
non-stop service to Seychelles from London,
effective April 2004. Learn
more...
— SARS: The
Ministry of Health of Seychelles has removed all restrictions
for travellers arriving from SARS - affected countries as from
Monday 7th July 2003. Latest news...
— Air
Seychelles launched its regional cargo operations with the
arrival of its leased Antonov-12 cargo aircraft today from
Nairobi. The
setting up of the regional cargo operations is aimed towards
increasing cargo capacity from South Africa and Kenya to the
Seychelles to cater for the needs of the Seychelles market. Learn
more...
— SEYCHELLES
Holidays: Air Seychelles is launching its brand
new "Seychelles Holidays" brochure in the UAE and
other Gulf area states. It has further plans to expand to
other European countries as well as the Far East. Learn
more...
— SEYCHELLES
PLUS Frequent Flyer Programme: Visitors to the Air
Seychelles websites can now join
on line and view
their statements on line.
— The
Indian Ocean Pass is a new venture from Air Seychelles,
Air Mauritius and Air Austral.
The
pass allows a traveller to build his own itinerary around the
Indian Ocean Islands on any of the participating airlines network.
The network of the pass encompasses the following islands:
Comores, Madagascar, Maldives, Mayotte, Mauritius, Reunion,
Rodrigues and Seychelles.
Full story >>>
— Air
Seychelles increases capacity to Praslin.
The
latest acquisition of a 36-seater Shorts SD 360 aircraft to
Air Seychelles' inter-island fleet is a major investment
in providing more capacity to Praslin.
Full story >>>
— Air
Seychelles speedily resumes regional flights after mid-flight
knife incident.
Victoria,
09 September 2002 — Air Seychelles pressed on with
its regional flight schedule today barely hours after an
early morning incident in which a man brandished a knife
at a crew member on a Mumbai-Maldives flight.
Full story >>>
— AIR
SEYCHELLES moves to a new head office
Victoria — Air
Seychelles head office is moving to its new location at The
Creole Spirit building, Quincy Street with effect from
Monday 2nd September 2002.
Full story >>>
— AIR
SEYCHELLES launches Mumbai (India) service
Victoria — Air
Seychelles started its weekly service to Mumbai on January
20.
The Mumbai service is operated by the new Boeing 737-700 aircraft,
via the Maldives, on Sunday evenings.
The flight departs Mahe at 5.45 p.m. with a one-hour transit stop on
Male, Maldives and carries onto Mumbai.
The return sector flight on the Mumbai-Maldives route departs at 2.50
a.m. early Monday morning and arrives Mahe at 7.35 a.m.
Air links between India and Seychelles were once served by Air India
between 1976 and 1988 and Air Seychelles also operated a weekly service
on its then Boeing 757 from 1993 to 1996 when the aircraft was returned.
— New
Boeing 737 operates on Indian Ocean routes
Victoria,
December 3rd 2001 — Air
Seychelles' new Boeing 737-700 aircraft, named Amirantes,
landed at Seychelles International Airport at around 9
a.m. on Saturday morning Nov. 24th.
The 126-seater aircraft, which began operating on the national airline's
regional network as from December 1st, has been fitted in with interior
design features reflecting the Creole atmosphere.
The arrival of the new Boeing 737-700 aircraft allows the national
carrier to provide passengers with more frequent flights on its regional
route network which operates to Johannesburg, Dubai, Mauritius and
the new services to Mumbai, Maldives, Mayotte and the Comores.
Read
the full story.
