Air Mauritius (MK, Mauritius) took delivery of its first A350-900 3B-NBP (msn 145) on Friday, October 20. It is the first of two such aircraft, the national carrier of Mauritius will dry-lease from AerCap. Six of the Trent XWB-84 equipped twinjets and two A330-900neo aircraft, the latter on lease from Air Lease Corporation, will replace Air Mauritius' existing widebody fleet of six A340-300s and two A330-200s.

Air Mauritius plans to initially deploy its A350-900 on routes from Mauritius to Johannesburg O.R. Tambo and Paris CDG on a regular basis with some ad-hoc flights to Kuala Lumpur International, London Heathrow, and Singapore Changi scheduled for October and November as well.

The new aircraft operate in a two class configuration with 300 Economy and 28 Business Class seats, according to ch-aviation fleets data.