New Maldivian flight commences operations

The new aircraft brought for “Maldivian” on the 18th of this month has commenced flights to India’s Trivandrum yesterday.
Assistant Director of Island Aviation Services Ismail Sujau said that this 50 seat aircraft will start flights to other destinations even thought it started flights to Trivandrum now.
“We are first starting the flights of this aircraft to India’s Trivandrum. Two flights will be conducted to Trivandrum from 27th of this month onwards. Although this aircraft conducts flights to Trivandrum, it would also travel to Kaadedhdhoo and Gan also” Sujau said.
The ferry flight took off from Cairns- Australia on 11th September 2008 and it was flown to Darwin in Australia followed by Bali-Indonesia, Singapore, Port Blair-India, Colombo-Sri Lanka and finally to Male’. With the arrival of this aircraft, Island Aviation will have 05 aircraft comprising of 01 Dornier 228 aircraft and 04 Dash-8 aircraft.
This aircraft has been painted with the new livery, “Maldivian”, which is the brand name for the company’s airline division.
21/09/08 Miadhu, Maldives

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Categories: Foreign Sep 2008, New Sep 2008