Montreal, August 26, 2024 – Air Transat, voted 2024 World's Best Leisure Airline at the Skytrax World Airline Awards, is pleased to announce the expansion of its virtual interlining service with the addition of two new airline partners. Its innovative connectair by Air Transat platform now enables travellers to combine Air Transat flights with those of Jet2.com and Air Mauritius, bringing the total to 16 collaborating airlines and offering unprecedented access to over 280 additional destinations worldwide.
Thanks to its partnership with Air Mauritius, Air Transat now offers easy access to the wonders of Mauritius via a connection at Paris-Charles de Gaulle or London-Gatwick. In addition, Air Transat's partnership with the award-winning leisure airline Jet2.com allows it to serve several new destinations in the United Kingdom, including Leeds Bradford, Birmingham, Newcastle and East Midlands.
Connections are available through the search engine on airtransat.com and through some flight aggregators. The booking also includes an assistance service in case of flight delay or cancellation, ensuring that travellers arrive at their destination as quickly as possible.
To learn more about connectair by Air Transat, travellers are invited to visit airtransat.com.
About Air Transat
Founded in Montreal 36 years ago, Air Transat is a leading travel brand voted 2024 World's Best Leisure Airline by passengers at the Skytrax World Airline Awards. Its program offers access to international destinations, mainly in Europe, the Caribbean, the East coast of the U.S, South America and North Africa. Air Transat is recognized for its excellent customer service. By renewing its fleet with the most energy-efficient aircraft in their category, Air Transat is committed to a more sustainable travel industry. Based in Montreal with major hubs in YUL Montréal-Trudeau International Airport and Toronto Pearson Airport (YYZ), it has near 5,000 employees with a common purpose to bring people closer together. Air Transat is a business unit of Transat A.T. Inc. (TSX: TRZ). www.airtransat.com
About Air Mauritius
Air Mauritius currently operates direct flights to 13 destinations, spanning across Europe, India, Southeast Asia, Australia, Africa, and the Indian Ocean islands. In addition, Air Mauritius offers over 50 destinations in codeshare with partner airlines. From the Piper Navajo at its beginnings, Air Mauritius currently operates latest generation wide-body aircraft such as the Airbus A350-900 and the A330-900neo. The Air Mauritius fleet consists of four Airbus A350-900, two A330-900neo, two A330-200 and four ATR72. Three additional direct order Airbus A350-900 aircraft will be joining the Air Mauritius fleet during 2026 and 2027. Air Mauritius products and services have been rated 4-Star by rating agency Skytrax.
About Jet2.com
Jet2.com is the UK’s third largest airline, flying over 500 routes from 12 UK airports to over 70 sun, leisure city and ski destinations across Europe, the Mediterranean and Canary Islands. As well as offering friendly low fares and award-winning service to customers enjoying a flight-only product with Jet2.com, customers travelling on a package holiday with Jet2holidays (the UK’s largest tour operator) also fly with the award-winning airline. Jet2.com’s Customer First approach sees the leading leisure airline repeatedly win high profile awards and accolades with recent examples including Which? Travel Brand of the Year, TripAdvisor – Best Airline UK & Europe and Best Airline for Customer Experience according to the UK Institute for Customer Service.
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Contact: Marie-Christine Pouliot
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