Air Seychelles, Niki expand codeshare |10 May 2016

Offer more travel options between Vienna and Seychelles

Air Seychelles and Niki, the Austrian subsidiary airline of the Air Berlin group, have expanded their codeshare agreement to offer travellers convenient flights between Austria and Seychelles via Paris.

As of yesterday, Air Seychelles has placed its flight code on 12 weekly services operated by Niki between Vienna and Paris and the airline will place its code on six weekly services operated by Air Seychelles  between Paris and Seychelles, offering  holidaymakers and business travellers a choice of same-day and stopover connections to Seychelles.

Niki is the second largest airline based at Vienna International Airport. Since 2012, it has been offering guests a worldwide route network. With best fares and the best product, Niki and Air Berlin have become number one for flights between Austria and Germany.

The new routes extend the already existing codeshare agreement signed by the two airlines in August 2015 that covers flights between Vienna and Seychelles via Abu Dhabi, as well as inter island flights between the archipelago’s largest islands of Mahé and Praslin.

Roy Kinnear, chief executive of Air Seychelles, has said: “We are pleased to continue working with our codeshare partner Niki to provide tourists and business people from Austria with more travel options to our tropical islands. We are confident this development will have a positive knock-on effect on inbound tourism into Seychelles and we look forward to welcoming Niki’s passengers on board our aircraft. On the other hand, our guests in Seychelles can now choose to fly to Vienna, a city steeped in culture, history and tradition, via Paris or Abu Dhabi with Niki, knowing they will have a smooth travel experience.”

Oliver Lackmann, Niki managing director said: “With this codeshare expansion, air travellers can easily book one-stop flights from Austria to Paris and onwards to Seychelles, using one single combined ticket for their entire journey. We are pleased to be able to offer an even larger choice of connections to Seychelles, combining flights via Paris with flights via Abu Dhabi.”

The Air Seychelles codeshare flight with Niki takes off from Mahé at 21:50 on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, reaching Paris Charles de Gaulle the next day at 06:00. The connecting flights leave at 08:55 and 21:00 on Monday, Thursday and Saturday to arrive in Vienna at 10:40 and 22:45 respectively.

It leaves Vienna at 06:15 on the same days and at 18:20 on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and reaches Paris respectively at 08:10 and 20:15.

The CDG-Mahé flight leaves at 19:45 on Monday, Thursday and Sunday, to arrive at 08:00 the next day.