Jet fuel skyrockets and passengers nosedive: all-Business BeOnd cancels all flights to Maldives for six months
The all-Business Emirates-Maldivian airline Beond has canceled all its services to and from the Maldives with immediate effect. The [...]
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The all-Business Emirates-Maldivian airline Beond has canceled with immediate effect all its routes to and from the Maldives. The carrier, in a note, cited "the recent increase in fuel prices" e "the typical seasonal pattern of demand" (in the Maldives, summer is low season) to explain the suspension of flights on its entire network for a period of six months.
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A decision that was probably inevitable, given also the context of regional instability in which BeOnd operates, having to stop over in Saudi Arabia or Dubai on the way to Malé, but that will certainly not benefit its image, which has been tarnished on several occasions during its two years of existence, by cancellations and delays.
Between now and the end of October, the carrier also explains in the note, "we will invest in our fleet by renewing our onboard product and We will outfit four other aircraft with our all-business cabin, thus being able to operate during Winter 2026-2027 with a fleet of six airplanes". Passengers who had already booked flights for Summer 2026 "will be contacted by our customer service department, which will offer them re-routing options," the company further explains.
For those who have booked from Milan with BeOnd for Summer 2026, the announcement means cancellation of both flights to Malé and flights to Red Sea International Airport, on the Saudi shore of the Red Sea, a route on which BeOnd was operating in fifth freedom by taking advantage of the stopover along the route to the Maldives, which both its Airbus A319 and Airbus A321 are unable to travel without a stopover for refueling.
BeOnd also informs that its flights for Winter 2025-2026 are already open for reservations on its website. The schedule from Milan includes between October 31 and March 27, 2027 two weekly connections (on Wednesdays and Saturdays) operated with 68-seat Airbus A321 in all-Business configuration with 2-2 rows with technical stopover always at Red Sea International Airport in Saudi Arabia (with the option of connecting only between Malpensa and Red Sea).
From Europe there will be two important new additions, with Paris Charles De Gaulle and London Heathrow joining Munich and Zurich. Connections from the French and British capitals to the Maldives (via Dubai Al Maktoum) will be three per week.
