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:
“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)
“A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)