Air Seychelles Bares Flight Schedules

Manila Bulletin
April 18, 2012

Air Seychelles and its equity partner Etihad Airways unveiled a new timetable that offers passengers the quickest connections to and from Europe.

  The timetable changes, effective from May 1, see Air Seychelles doubling its Mahe- Abu Dhabi flights from two to four times a week and the introduction of Airbus A330-200 aircraft on the route, with 22 flat bed business class seats and 240 seats in economy. The Airbus has 51 more seats than the Boeing 767-300ER it is replacing.

  The combined aircraft upgrading and frequency increase boost Air Seychelles' capacity on the route by 240 per cent per week. Etihad Airways maintains its four weekly frequencies.

  The new combined Air Seychelle-Etihad Airways schedule means passenger flying to and from the Seychelles will jave greatly improved sub-four hour connectivity through Abu-Dhabi. These connections will jum by 57 to 375 flights per week.

  "These changes are a major step forward in re-energising tha Air Seychelles brand and ensuring we become the carrier of choice in the Indian Ocean region and beyond," the airline's Chief Executive Officer, Cramer Ball, said.

  "They allow us to offer our passengers a schedule that connects directly into Europe on Etihad Airways global network. The new schedule will provide a daily seamless connection from London, Paris, Frankfurt,Dusselfort and Berlin. It will also offer improved connectivity to and from other European cities including Dublin, Milan, Munich, Brussels and Geneva. Passengers bound for London, Manchester and less than two hours," Ball said.

  He said, "There will also be more connection to and from the Gulf region, the Indian Subcontinent, the Far East and Australia."