Air Mad has changed and - unfortunately - tightened up the regulations on discounts on their domestic flights.
If you take a long-haul flight from Europe with Air Mad, the reduction on domestic flights is now 30% instead of 50%. The same reduction also applies if you fly with them into Madagascar from Bangkok, Johannesburg or La Réunion.
If you fly in from Kenya, Mauritius, the Comoros or Mayotte, you get a 20% discount on the domestics.
A pretty unpleasant change is that you now apparently have to book the domestic flights at the same time as your international flight if you want to get the discount. That means that the previous practice of giving a 40% discount on domestic flights booked within Madagascar has been discontinued. This was explicitly confirmed by the Call centre in Paris, but it would be useful to hear from someone who has actually been given - or refused - a discount when booking domestic flights in country since the new system came into force with the timetable change on 26 October.
On the plus side - for anyone travelling between 1 January and 28 March 2009 there's a special offer from Paris to Tana and back. The website says "from" 827 euro.
Also interesting is a young people's fare offering a reduction of "up to 60%" for people aged between 12 and 28 (on the Air Mad website click "Nos offres" and then "de 7 à 77 ans"). For that you'd presumably have to contact a call centre - the still not very confidence inspiring online booking facility doesn't offer any such discount.
