30 international airlines currently operating flights to Maldives

A total of 30 international airlines are currently operating flights to the Maldives.

Latest statistics published by the Ministry of Tourism revealed that a number of international airlines are increasing flight frequency to the island nation, in light of the growing demand of visitors.

As of Wednesday, a total of 30 international airlines are operating flights to Maldives.

While Maldives discontinued issuing on-arrival visas on March 27, nearly four months later the government reopened borders for international travel, following which Qatar Airways was the first airline to commence flight operations to the island nation.

Thus far, Emirates has carried the highest number of passengers to the Maldives, at 48,098, on 540 flights. Second comes Qatar with 446 flight movements and 34,436 passengers, followed by IndiGo with 496 flight movements and 32,248 passengers.

Since borders were reopened the country’s national airline, Maldivian has also carried 6,395 passengers.

Further, some of the international airlines operating chartered flights to Maldives include Air Astana, Azur Air Ukraine, Gullivair, Ukraine International, Scat Airlines, Uzbekistan Airways, Vistara, Blue Air as well as Garuda.

Maldives welcomed 247,138 tourists by Thursday out of which the highest arrivals were recorded from India contributing 23.8 percent of the total arrivals. Second comes Russia contributing 21.7 percent of the total arrival rate, followed by Ukraine making up 6.5 percent of the arrival count.

Maldives aims to welcome 1.5 million tourist arrivals this ongoing year.