{"id":7170,"date":"2010-10-02T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/air-mauritius-recognized-as-indian-oceans-leading-airline-2\/"},"modified":"2010-10-02T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-02T02:45:00","slug":"air-mauritius-recognized-as-indian-oceans-leading-airline-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/10\/air-mauritius-recognized-as-indian-oceans-leading-airline-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Mauritius recognized as Indian Ocean’s Leading Airline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Donald Payen and Carla da Silva of Air Mauritius pictured w\/David de Montfalcon of World Travel Awards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Air Mauritius has been honored once again by the 17th World Travel Awards (WTA) in the category \u201cIndian Ocean\u2019s Leading Airline.\u201d The airline which was nominated in the same category with Air France, South African Airways, Air Seychelles, Air Austral and Air Madagascar, received the award July 17th, 2010 at a gala ceremony in The City of Gold, Johannesburg, South Africa.<\/p>\n

The World Travel Awards is the most prestigious, comprehensive and sought after awards program in the global tourism industry. More than 183,000 travel, tourism and hospitality professionals vote for the winners and the award is one of the highest accolades a travel company can receive.<\/p>\n

Ms. Manon Han, Executive Vice President, World Travel Awards, commented, \u201cAir Mauritius is this year\u2019s winner of the \u2018Indian Ocean\u2019s Leading Airline\u2019 award. Since the inception, 17 years ago, World Travel Awards\u2019 objective has been to encourage world-class competition, stimulate innovation, and creativity, as well as ensure that travelers receive exceptional value. As a national carrier of an island that relies so crucially on tourism, Air Mauritius has posted positive operating results despite all the challenges facing the airline industry. Its continued dedication in tourism success is exemplary and we congratulate Air Mauritius on being named \u2018Indian Ocean\u2019s Leading Airline 2010.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Air Mauritius CEO, Mr. Mao R.K. Ujoodha, G.O.S.K., noted, \u201cAir Mauritius is proud to be once again acknowledged by the travel industry worldwide. Our team is greatly encouraged by the continued recognition of Air Mauritius as a leading airline brand in this part of the world. I would like to dedicate this award to all our shareholders, in particular the Government of Mauritius for their support to the national airline; to our customers and travel\/tourism partners for their trust in our brand; to the Air Mauritius team for their hard work; and to all Mauritians as they remain loyal to the national airline.\u201d<\/p>\n

Air Mauritius Equipment: The Mauritius Air fleet is composed of two Airbus A340-300Es, two Airbus A319-100s, four Airbus A340-300s, two Airbus A330-200s and two ATR72-500s.<\/p>\n

Air Mauritius Route Overview: Air Mauritius is based in Port Louis, Mauritius and flies to:<\/p>\n

Asia: Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Bengalaru (India), Dubai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong<\/p>\n

Europe: London, Paris, Munich, Geneva, Milan, Frankfurt<\/p>\n

Australia: Perth, Melbourne<\/p>\n

Africa: Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Antananarivo, Nairobi, Reunion, Rodrigues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Payen and Carla da Silva of Air Mauritius pictured w\/David de Montfalcon of World Travel Awards Air Mauritius has been honored once again by the 17th World Travel Awards (WTA) in the category \u201cIndian Ocean\u2019s Leading Airline.\u201d The airline which was nominated in the same category with Air France, South African Airways, Air Seychelles, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}