VoloperTe wrote: ↑09 Jan 2023, 09:24Sorry but have you seen or heard any advertisement of Air Belgium on TV or radio in Belgium? NO! In the Nederland, France or Germany to fill flights to Mauritius, Curacao, Punta Cana,... ?? NO advertisement !JOVAN2 wrote: ↑09 Jan 2023, 00:41AB would better leave Mauritius to the French. Same story as Guadeloupe & Martinique.crew1990 wrote: ↑07 Jan 2023, 23:30 Review of an Air Belgium kind of empty flight to Mauritius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zEIYWwrwyw
Or Curacao & Bonaire: leave it to the Dutch.
concentrate on US West Coast, Mexico & Brazil. And RSA.
Air Belgium is managed in an amateur way... what does the sales&marketing team ??
I guess that most of these seats are sold through tour operator , like many airlines coming to Mauritius.
Tuifly Nordic, LOT Polish Airlines, Austrian Airlines or Bulgaria Air serve Mauritus.
You have the same thing with Tanzania (mostly in Zanzibar), Kenya, Madagascar and Seychelles. Plenty non stop flights from Central & East Europe to East and Southern Africa.
I don' think that Austria, Romania, Norway or Buglaria are bigger market than Belgium in these parts of Africa. All these countries in Africa or Europe that i cited are well served by Air France, Lufthansa and Mid East Airlines. So competition is high. However it seems that some airlines can sustain & make profits on these non stop flights (LOT, TAROM Romania, Neos, Smartwings, Enter Air Poland, Austrian Airlines,...). Some these airlines make a fuel stop in Egypt because the B737 can't fly directly which leads to more spendings.
It's not always the airline that wants to serve the route, but authorities of an African country which wants through Tour Operator based in Africa or in Europe to attract more tourist.