Air Austral Adjusts Planned Links From Dzaoudzi

Air Austral is to introduce direct flights from Dzaoudzi to Marseille alongside its previously announced flights to Paris CDG. The commune of Dzaoudzi is the largest habited area on the small island of Petite-Terre and former capital of Mayotte, an Indian Ocean archipelago located in the Mozambique Channel between northwestern Madagascar and northeastern Mozambique.

The carrier is planning to offer three flights per week from Dzaoudzi Pamandzi International Airport from October 31 following the delivery of its Boeing 777-200LRs, but has confirmed that one flight will route via Marseille on its westbound leg. It currently offers a daily link to Dzaoudzi from its Reunion base with onward connections throughout its network.

There are currently only limited scheduled links from Dzaoudzi outside of the region, with Kenya Airways offering a three times weekly link to Nairobi and African Express Airways a weekly rotation to the Kenyan capital. However, Corsairfly does already offer a twice weekly link to Paris Orly and has served Marseilles in the past.

An estimated 34,700 O&D passengers travelled between Mayotte and France in the past year. Around 65 per cent of these used the non-stop Corsairfly flight with the remainder flying via other markets.

Schedule:

Dzaoudzi – Paris CDG
UU979 DZA1100 – 1905CDG 77L 16
UU978 CDG2100 – 0820+1DZA 77L 57

Dzaoudzi – Marseille – Paris CDG
UU979 DZA1000 – 1735MRS1845 – 2005CDG 77L 3