Air Mauritius "Not Ready"

The national aviation company Air Mauritius said he was not ready for the moment to work on the possible creation of a regional airline in the Indian Ocean. It is the Chairman of the Board, Dass Thomas, who said yesterday at the conference on connectivity in Indocéanie organized by the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC). "MK going through difficult times, and his task is to find serenity, if not the profitability and the company regain its position as a key trader in the region," he said.

Air Mauritius, says Dass Thomas, without elaborating, had to face enormous difficulties. He added that three former CEO of the company have also gone through difficult times. Some important decisions have been made and others will be, but unfortunately, in some cases, they will not appeal to everyone. The big problem of the hour is that MK is in a difficult situation, it is fragile and it is being attacked from all sides. "We need to find sustainable solutions. We could sell the assets of the company and reduce to a minimum and make money. But this is not the solution, "he said. Dass Thomas, at this stage, said "no, MK is not ready for regionalization because we can not let the company destroy the time taken to create a regional company. "

Chairman of the Board of Directors of MK then mentioned some problems that require urgent solutions. One of them is the whim of political leaders who are leading the country. He said he had the experience on a flight to Nairobi. "The door of the aircraft was almost locked when the captain announced that the passengers were all down because the country's president has decided at the last minute to go to a particular destination and airspace must be released. No commercial flight will take off. It lasted two and a half "hour, he said. On another occasion, the former CEO of Air Afrique, Sir Harry Tirvengadum, told him that he knew he would not have had two classes in the company but only because all seats business and first-class families were taken by the political leaders and their families. "There was no income for that," he says.

Returning to the idea of creating a regional aviation company, Mr. Thomas said that this is not a project stillborn but at this stage it can not commit the company. "While the situation is not rosy but I always say that after the rain, there's the weather. "