Flights from Port Louis to Antananarivo (MRU-TNR): Airlines, USD Fares

Flights Port Louis -> Antananarivo (MRU-TNR) — USD Fares, Airlines, Frequency

3 scheduled departures a week link Port Louis (MRU) in Mauritius with Antananarivo (TNR) — one every 2.3 days on average — flown by 1 catalogued carrier at a scheduled block time near 2.5 hours. Our catalogue scores corridor demand 5/10 and files it as an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor.

Flight MRU -> TNR is operated by Air Mauritius (~3 flights per week, ~2.5h block time). This is an intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor, with typical economy USD fares in the $500-1,500 band. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

Great-circle distance Port Louis–Antananarivo is about 1,084 km, computed from the stored coordinates of MRU (-20.43, 57.68) and TNR (-18.80, 47.48). What the figure fixes is the sector profile — 1,084 km against a scheduled 2.5-hour block time — and the fuel-and-crew economics behind the fare floor. It does not fix a compensation amount. No fixed-tariff compensation scheme reaches MRU–TNR. EU261 and UK261 do band by distance, but they only cover flights departing an EU/EEA or UK airport — plus arrivals there on a bloc-licensed carrier — and neither endpoint here is one, whoever operates the flight. The Montreal Convention 1999 is what applies, and it pays provable loss, not a tariff.

Airlines on this route

1 carrier operates MRU–TNR: Air Mauritius (MK), a full-service airline based in Mauritius, with no alliance recorded in our file, with a 23 kg checked-baggage baseline in our table. Our route file puts the corridor at about 3 weekly departures with a scheduled block time near 2.5 hours.

One column is blank rather than negative. Our carrier file carries a row for Air Mauritius but no alliance value, which means unrecorded, not unaligned — this page therefore says nothing about its alliance membership either way. The practical question a connection turns on is narrower anyway: whether the two airlines on your itinerary interline, and whether both sectors sit on one ticket. Both are answerable at the booking screen, and neither depends on an alliance badge.

Our carrier table records a diaspora / migrant-worker baggage uplift of +15 kg on Air Mauritius. Read that as a carrier promotion, not a universal entitlement: uplifts of this kind are normally tied to specific fare families and specific corridors, they are rarely honoured on a codeshare or interline segment issued by another airline, and the cheapest promotional fare buckets are the ones most often excluded. Confirm the allowance against your own booking class before you pack to it.

USD fares — MRU-TNR

$555 is the lowest one-way economy price the Travelpayouts feed returned for MRU–TNR on MK, for a 2027-01-10T14:20:00+04:00 departure. That is a single cached observation on this one corridor — not a low across the site’s fare cache, and not a live price — so read it as an observed floor for MRU–TNR on that date.

Typical economy fares on MRU-TNR sit in the $500-1,500 range. Live cached fares from Travelpayouts appear in the panel below; fare-month seasonality follows.

Across the 8 departure months our cache holds a one-way low for, the cheapest reading on MRU–TNR is $253 for a Nov 2026 departure and the dearest is $446 for Feb 2027 — a spread of $193 between the best and worst month in the same cache. Month-to-month movement of that size is normal on this corridor and is usually worth more than any single booking trick.

The $555 quote in our cache is a nonstop itinerary of 3 h 45 m, which is the cleanest case: one flight number, one bag tag, one carrier responsible end to end. It also means the price floor on MRU–TNR does not depend on a connection holding together, so a delay costs you time rather than a missed onward sector.

What 3 weeks of cached fares show on MRU–TNR

3 weekly readings between 2026-W23 and 2026-W25 put the cached MRU–TNR low between $552 and $563 — a $11 spread, 2% of the cheapest reading. The cheapest reading is also the most recent, 2026-W25. Each row is one weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, not an average of everything sold that week.

The cached low was effectively flat end to end — $563 at the start of the window against $552 at the end. Read it with the sample size in front of you: 3 observations over a ten-week window is a signal about this corridor’s volatility, not a forecast. What it does establish is a defensible floor — you now know $552 was achievable on MRU–TNR inside the window, so a quote well above $563 is worth a second search.

Each row is a single weekly snapshot of the cheapest published quote, taken on one day, not an average of everything sold that week. Two consequences follow. A one-week dip can be a single small fare bucket rather than a trend, and a gap between weeks means we did not sample, not that fares vanished. Our history file covers 161 corridors on this pattern, which is what makes cross-corridor comparison possible at all.

Checked baggage and uplift on MRU–TNR — and what is not covered

23 kg is the checked-baggage baseline our carrier table records for the 1 airline on MRU–TNR, with a recorded diaspora uplift of up to +15 kg on Air Mauritius. Baselines are economy figures and fare-family dependent. The allowance printed on your issued ticket overrides any table, this one included.

A baggage baseline is the economy checked allowance an airline advertises as standard. It is not what your ticket necessarily grants. The same airline sells fare families below the baseline — hand-baggage-only and basic-economy buckets are exactly the ones that surface as the cheapest MRU–TNR quote in any fare cache, including ours. The allowance printed on your itinerary overrides any table, ours included.

Where our table records a migrant or diaspora uplift — +15 kg on Air Mauritius — three exclusions usually bite. The uplift attaches to nominated corridors rather than the whole network; it rarely survives onto a codeshare or interline segment operated and ticketed by a different airline; and the deepest-discount fare buckets are commonly carved out. None of that makes the uplift fictional, but it does mean it has to be confirmed against your booking class, in writing, before you pack to it.

Search live fares

3 weekly departures across 1 carrier mean a live MRU–TNR search returns several price points for the same day; our cached floor for the corridor is $555. Scheduled nonstop block time is 2.5 hours, so any result far above that is connecting whatever the screen says.

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Comparing MRU–TNR quotes fairly takes three corrections. Passenger count and cabin have to match across the tabs you are comparing. Elapsed time has to be read beside the price, since a connection can add most of a day to the 2.5-hour nonstop. And the baggage line has to be checked, because the cheapest fare family is usually the one carrying the least.

Date flexibility beats every other lever on MRU–TNR. Month-scanning surfaces the seasonal shape our fare log records; repeated searching on one fixed date mostly surfaces the same fare bucket. When the calendar is not negotiable — pilgrimage, school holidays, a job start — the useful move is to buy sooner, because scarcity, not timing, is what sets the price then.

About Antananarivo

3 catalogued corridors in this site’s data reach Antananarivo (TNR), Ivato International, ICAO FMMI, from 3 catalogued origins and 4 carriers in total. That count is this site’s coverage of Antananarivo, not the airport’s published schedule. Each of those corridors has its own guide with carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache holds.

Antananarivo, Madagascar — destination on the intra-Africa + Gulf hub transit corridor. Destination currency: USD (we quote in USD throughout this guide).

Beyond MRU, our catalogue reaches Antananarivo from 2 other origins: Johannesburg (JNB) and Nairobi (NBO). That matters when the MRU–TNR fare is unattractive: on a continent where positioning flights are cheap, flying out of a different gateway is a real option, and each of those corridors has its own guide, carriers and cached fare floor on this site.

Where our airport file holds no coordinates, hub carriers or country row for a destination, this page says less rather than guessing — no distance band, no hub analysis, no currency note. Antananarivo is catalogued here on the strength of the MRU–TNR corridor itself: the carriers our route file records, the estimated weekly frequency, the scheduled block time and whatever the fare cache has seen. That is a narrower page, and an honest one.

FAQ

Which airlines fly Port Louis to Antananarivo? Direct MRU-TNR flights are operated by Air Mauritius. Compare baggage baseline and alliance in the carrier table above.

How long is the MRU-TNR flight and how often does it run? Block time is about 2.5 hours. The MRU-TNR route runs roughly 3 flights per week across all carriers.

How much does a MRU-TNR flight cost and when is it cheapest? Typical economy fares sit in the $500-1,500 USD band. Intra-Africa and Gulf-hub transit fares move week-to-week; 4-8 weeks is the typical sweet spot.

What is the checked baggage allowance on MRU-TNR? It varies by carrier and fare class — see the baggage-baseline column in the carrier table above. Full-service carriers usually include 23-30 kg, while low-cost carriers sell it as an add-on. Confirm on the airline’s site before booking.

What currency is used in Antananarivo? Antananarivo uses USD. Fares in this guide are quoted in USD; budget on-the-ground spending in USD.

Related routes and reading

2 onward links follow for MRU–TNR, derived from shared endpoints, shared carriers and shared audience clusters rather than keyword similarity. The note after each says what that page adds that this one does not. Each corridor entry carries that route’s carriers, estimated weekly frequency, scheduled block time and demand score straight from our route file.

• Port Louis airport (MRU) — SSR International, Mauritius: 2 catalogued departure corridors and 4 arrival corridors.
• Antananarivo airport (TNR) — Ivato International, Madagascar: 0 catalogued departure corridors and 3 arrival corridors.

The relationship behind each link is structural: a common origin or destination airport, a common operating carrier, a common country, or the same audience cluster in our segmentation. No keyword matching is involved, so an unexpected entry here usually means a shared hub or a shared airline rather than a shared destination.

The corridor links are there to be used as alternatives, not as further reading. If the MRU–TNR fare or schedule does not work, a different African gateway to Antananarivo is often the better fix — positioning within the continent is cheap relative to the long-haul sector, and the fare gap between two origins to the same destination is regularly wider than the positioning ticket. The catch is that separately issued sectors carry no protection if the first one runs late.