Air Seychelles (IATA HM) is a full-service carrier based in Seychelles, a member of the - alliance. Across the corridors catalogued here it flies 6 routes from African airports, reaching 4 destinations in 4 countries, with home hubs at Mahé (SEZ). Most of these are intra-Africa and Gulf-hub business corridors. Its standard checked-baggage baseline is 23 kg, lifted by about 10 kg on diaspora and migrant-worker corridors.
At a glance
3 catalogued corridors on this site are flown by Air Seychelles (HM), a full-service carrier based in Seychelles with no alliance membership on record, with a 23 kg checked-baggage baseline.
| Attribute | Detail |
|---|---|
| IATA code | HM |
| Home country | Seychelles |
| Alliance | - |
| Carrier type | full-service |
| Checked-baggage baseline | 23 kg |
| Diaspora / migrant baggage uplift | +10 kg |
| Hajj / Umrah charter service | No |
Take the baseline as a starting point rather than an entitlement: the 23 kg figure is the standard economy checked allowance, and every airline sells fare families below it. Hand-baggage and basic-economy buckets are precisely the ones that surface as the cheapest quote in any fare cache, ours included. What your ticket grants is on the itinerary, and it overrides any table.
Our notes record a possible diaspora or migrant-worker baggage uplift of about +10 kg for Air Seychelles — an unverified figure, so confirm any extra allowance with the airline before you pack for it. Read it as a corridor-specific promotion: uplifts of this kind attach to nominated routes and fare families, are rarely honoured on a codeshare or interline segment operated by another airline, and usually exclude the deepest-discount buckets. Treat it as unconfirmed until your own booking class shows it.
Routes Air Seychelles flies from Africa — 6 corridors
3 corridors covered on this site are flown by Air Seychelles, reaching 1 destination and totalling about 12 weekly departures, with block times from 3.0 h to 5.0 h. This is the African-outbound catalogue, not the airline’s global network.
| Route | Freq/wk | Block (h) | Market low (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johannesburg (JNB) → Mahé (SEZ) | ~5 | ~5.0 | $636 |
| Nairobi (NBO) → Mahé (SEZ) | ~4 | ~3.5 | $602 |
| Port Louis (MRU) → Mahé (SEZ) | ~3 | ~3.0 | $441 |
| Mahé (SEZ) → Johannesburg (JNB) | — | — | — |
| Mahé (SEZ) → Nairobi (NBO) | — | — | — |
| Mahé (SEZ) → Port Louis (MRU) | — | — | — |
The USD market-low column is the cheapest fare our Travelpayouts cache has seen on that corridor across all carriers, not a Air Seychelles-only price; use it as a floor when comparing.
Passenger compensation rights
1 instrument covers Air Seychelles across most of its catalogued network: the Montreal Convention 1999, which caps liability at 1,519 SDR per passenger for baggage and 6,303 SDR for provable delay losses (ICAO limits in force since 28 December 2024). No EU261-style fixed cash compensation scheme reaches these corridors, so a long delay carries no statutory payout.
Air Seychelles’s catalogued African routes sit outside the EU261/UK261/GACA/APPR/DOT cash-compensation schemes; the Montreal Convention still covers baggage loss and provable delay losses on any international sector.
| Regime | When it applies | Remedy for a long delay / cancellation |
|---|---|---|
| Montreal Convention 1999 | Any international itinerary — baggage and delay losses. | Compensation for lost, damaged or delayed baggage (up to 1,519 SDR per passenger) and for provable losses caused by delay (up to 6,303 SDR), limits in force since 28 December 2024. |
| Regime | When it applies | Remedy for a long delay / cancellation |
|---|
What does not cover a Air Seychelles itinerary is worth stating plainly, because claim services will open a file regardless: EU261 — no catalogued corridor here touches an EU/EEA airport, and carrier nationality alone never triggers it, UK261 — no leg touches a UK airport, US DOT rules — no United States endpoint and Canada’s APPR — no Canadian endpoint. Filing under the wrong scheme costs weeks and ends in a rejection. Match the regulation to the departure airport and the operating carrier first, then claim.
When Air Seychelles is the right choice
3 catalogued corridors is the practical scope of this decision: Air Seychelles is worth choosing where it flies your corridor nonstop, where its 23 kg baseline beats the alternative, and where the schedule fits. Compare the block-time column, not only the price column.
You should choose Air Seychelles for its included 23 kg allowance and through-checked bags on connecting itineraries; diaspora and migrant-worker travellers gain from the ~10 kg extra-baggage uplift. Compare it against the other carriers on each corridor in the route table above before booking Air Seychelles.
The honest counter-case first. A single carrier is rarely the right answer on every corridor, and on a route where Air Seychelles connects while a competitor flies nonstop, the competitor usually wins on total elapsed time even at a higher fare. Compare the block-time column, not just the price column, on each corridor page — the difference between a nonstop and a one-stop routing on this site’s long-haul corridors is regularly eight hours or more.
FAQ
What is Air Seychelles’s checked baggage allowance? Air Seychelles’s checked-baggage baseline is 23 kg, normally included in its standard fares.
Is Air Seychelles part of an airline alliance? Air Seychelles is a member of the - alliance.
What kind of airline is Air Seychelles? Air Seychelles (HM) is a full-service carrier from Seychelles.
How many routes does Air Seychelles fly from Africa? Air Seychelles operates 6 routes from African airports catalogued here — see the list above; each links to a route guide.
Can I claim compensation on a Air Seychelles flight? Air Seychelles’s African routes carry no fixed cash-compensation scheme, but the Montreal Convention covers baggage loss and provable delay losses.
What is the cheapest route Air Seychelles flies from Africa? The lowest cached fare on a corridor flown by Air Seychelles in our weekly snapshot was about $441 on Port Louis–Mahé (MRU-SEZ) — a dated observation, not a current price; prices move with season, so search live fares before booking.
Sources
1 primary source cited on this page is regulator and government material, not secondary summaries. Each is listed with what it actually governs, so a claim on this page can be checked against the instrument it comes from. Where a value is missing from our own data we leave the cell blank rather than estimate it.
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AirHelp — flight-compensation claims — a commercial claims service, cited as the industry explainer alongside the regulator rather than instead of it.
Two-source discipline applies to every passenger-rights claim on this site: the regulator’s own text for the rule, and a commercial explainer only as a secondary reading. Where the two disagree, the regulator wins. Compensation figures stay in the currency of the instrument — euro for EU261, pound for UK261, Canadian dollar for APPR, SDR for Montreal — because converting them to USD would imply a precision the instruments do not have.
Fares on this page come from a weekly snapshot of Travelpayouts cached fares and a weekly fare-history log; frequencies, block times, baggage baselines and coordinates are this site’s own reference data. Where a value is missing we leave the cell blank instead of estimating it, which is why some tables have dashes.
Related
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- Flights to Mauritius — country landing page: 4 catalogued corridors from African airports, carriers, visa row and the USD fare floor we have on file.
Corridor pages carry the per-route detail — carriers, weekly frequency, scheduled block time, great-circle distance and whatever the fare cache holds. Airport pages carry the full catalogued route list at that field, the based hub carriers and the compensation regime of the country it sits in. Carrier pages carry the baggage baseline, alliance and the network as this catalogue records it.