Fleet
In April 1988 (1988-04) the company acquired two Boeing 767-200ERs, named City of Port Louis and City of Curepipe. One of these aircraft set a record-breaking distance for commercial twinjets on 18 April 1988, when it flew non-stop from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Mauritius, covering a distance of almost 9,000 miles (14,000 km) in less than 17 hours.
In 1994, the airline became the first in the Southern Hemisphere to fly the Airbus A340-300. The Enhanced version of the type was ordered by the carrier in mid-2005. The A340-300 Enhanced was put on service on the London-Heathrow route in December 2006, soon after delivery. Also that month, the last original Airbus A340-300 ever built was delivered to the company; it was registered 3B-NBJ and named Le Chamarel. Likewise, in 2007, the airline retrofitted all other Airbus A340-300s in its fleet. In March 2007 (2007-03), Air Mauritius became the first airline of a Southern African country that flew an all-Airbus fleet for long- and medium-haul routes. In late 2007, the fleet saw the incorporation of the Airbus A330-200; a second aircraft of the same type was delivered in October 2009 (2009-10).
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Famous quotes containing the word fleet:
“A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)