Pilot Rob McIntyre spent two years in the Maldives. “I have great memories,” he says. Maldivian Air Taxi was established in 1993 with two Twin Otters. At the time, perhaps six resorts used ...

The new carrier is jointly owned by Maldives-based trading company SIMDI Group and United Arab Emirates' airline start-up Arabesque, and has ambitions to fly to 52 destinations in five years.