Flight information for Mauritius Island to London to help you plan your next trip. There are direct flights on this route 6 days a week: Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun.
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It takes around 12 hours 15 minutes to fly from Mauritius (MRU) to London (LON).
British Airways and TUI both fly direct from London Gatwick (LGW) to Mauritius, while Air Mauritius flies direct from London Heathrow (LHR) with a flight time of just under 12 hours.
Mauritius can be very expensive if you stick to the hotels, especially 4 star upwards. Supermarket prices are the same as here, and rising with oil prices, so even basics are not as cheap as they were. A lot of people on the forum complain about the rip off prices in euros that hotels charge, and they are right.
“We are proud to begin daily operations to London Gatwick from 29 October. This strategic move allows Air Mauritius to meet increasing demand on this historical route while using its most environmentally friendly types of aircraft, such as the Airbus A350-900 and the A330-900 neo.
London Gatwick to Mauritius FlightsThe fastest direct flight from London Gatwick to Mauritius takes 12 hours. The flight distance between London Gatwick and Mauritius is 6,054 miles (or 9,743 km).
Direct flights to Mauritius from the UK take 12 hours and with a three-hour time difference, holidays are jet-lag free. There are many fantastic twin centre options you can use for a trip to Mauritius.
There are no direct flights from the US and Canada to Mauritius; it takes around 24 hours to reach Mauritius from New York City, for example. The best options are via London or a continental European city such as Paris.
Emirates currently operates daily A380 flights to Mauritius. In line with rising demand, the airline will be scaling up operations from daily to nine weekly flights between 09 April 2022 and the end of June 2022 and then moving up to double daily flights from July 2022.
You can't fly direct from Manchester to Mauritius, but you can fly to the idyllic island paradise with just one changeover. The swiftest services are usually the Air France and Air Mauritius flights which take 13 to14 hours and stop-off in Paris, but Emirates and Qantas can have you there in less than 18 (via Dubai).
On the whole, Mauritius has no real major danger zones. Downtown Port Louis and central tourist areas logically do have a marginally higher crime rate, but most of the time it is also safe to go to. A visitor should be perfectly safe walking along the well-lit beachfront and bustling streets at night.
However, the most agreeable times to visit the island are from April to June and from September to December to avoid the peak of summer and winter, the only two seasons in Mauritius. Summer in Mauritius lasts from October to April, no spring unlike Europe, with sunlight from 5:30 am to 7 pm at the peak of the season.