British Airways offers three non-stop flights a week to Mauritius (Mon, Thu and Sat) from London Gatwick on Boeing 777 aircraft with a flight time of around 12 hours.
Set off from London on a direct flight to Mauritius with British Airways, and you'll be soaring over the Indian Ocean before you know it. Simply sit back and picture the islands' pristine beaches and turquoise waters, or tune into the in-flight entertainment system.
Heathrow is one of the busiest two-runway airports in the world with about 1,300 combined take-offs and landings a day under normal pre-Covid conditions.
3 direct services weekly between London (Heathrow) and Mauritius on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and 3 direct flights returning from Mauritius to London (Heathrow) on Thursday evening, Saturday Morning and Saturday evening.
The Boeing 777-200 is a long range, twin aisle, twin-engine jet manufactured by Boeing, the American aerospace company. We operate these aircraft on longhaul routes to North and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, Australasia, the Far East, Middle East and Gulf destinations.
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.
My top picks as a solo traveler are 26A or 26K followed by the aisle seats in the front row, though if traveling with another person, rows 36, 37 and 38 provide great options in the A&B and J&K seats. Row 26 on the refurbished British Airways 772.
It is never quiet in any meaningful sense. It runs at 98% capacity most of the time with flights landing & taking off every 30 seconds. Quiet & Heathrow don't really go together. Brittraveller: As far as I'm aware Sunday is almost always the busiest day of the week at Heathrow, particularly in summer.