AIR SEYCHELLES RECEIVES NEW TWIN OTTER AT MAHE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
(Posted 14th October 2015)
Air Seychelles earlier today received their sixth Twin Otter, a DHC6 – 400 type with a state of the art avionics suite and improved features helping to save fuel. This completes the delivery of an order made by the airline in 2013 of three such newer versions of the Twin Otter, with the two other aircraft already received in 2014.
The latest addition to the airline’s fleet will begin commercial operations now with both scheduled and charter flights.
Mahe is connected to the archipelago’s second largest island Praslin up to 178 times a week while other islands like Denis – after which the aircraft has been named – Bird, Desroches or Fregate are served on demand.
The aircraft was enroute from Calgary in Canada and had to perform a series of long ferry flights before reaching Mahe, necessitating seven overnight stops. The longest segment of the journey lasted over 10 hours and extended over nearly 3.000 kilometres from Aswan to Nairobi with the overall distance measuring up to 16.770 kilometres. The ferry flights were performed by Air Seychelles’ Chief Pilot Turboprop Fleet Capt. Mervin Mondon.
As a special gesture, besides giving the aircraft a VIP Welcome with Vice President Danny Faure, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Transport Mr. Joel Morgan and the airline’s CEO Mr. Roy Kinnear, were 65 children from the President’s Childrens Village invited and given commemorative certificates, besides cake and drinks.
Happy landings to the aircraft, the crews and all the passengers who will fly on this aircraft incoming days, weeks, months and years.
