<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">Early history 1925-1939</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The aircraft were awaited as they brought news of the outside world, mail, medicines, foodstuffs, and above all, new people to a community hundreds of kilometres from the nearest big town.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The first air service began in the 1930s, using a landing strip that today is Maun's main street. The strip was later moved away from the town centre to the present site of the airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The earliest known flights over the Okavango took place in July 1925, and were part of a survey of rivers in the region, using aircraft based in Livingstone.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Two Airco D.H. 9 type, numbers 142 and 144 of the then Union Defense Force of South Africa, were used, piloted by Captain C.W. Meredith and Lieutenant L. Tasker. They routed to Livingstone from Johannesburg via Bulawayo.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Airlink commenced direct flights between Cape Town and Maun starting in March 2016. In October 2016, Air Namibia suspended scheduled flights to Maun Airport. In May 2018 government officials confirmed their commitment to refurbish and upgrade the existing airport building.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Accidents</h2>
<p class="blog-para">In March 2000 a Cessna 414 crashed on its way from Gaborone to Maun. The pilot and a passenger walked for over 200 kilometres (120 mi) to find help.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">About Maun Airport International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Maun Airport was built in the year 1939. The IATA code for the airport is MUB. Cleartrip provides information about the different airline brands that operate from Maun airport and also a list of top domestic and international routes from Maun.</p>
<p class="blog-para">There are different domestic and international airlines that operate from Maun airport. Out of them, the airline brands that operate more frequently are Air Botswana Corp, Air Namibia, South African and . In addition to this, the most popular sectors from Maun are Maun to Cape Town, Maun to Johannesburg with 29, 15 weekly flights respectively.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Air Botswana Corp airline 031 to Gaborone is the first flight that departs from Maun airport at 10:00 AM, followed by Air Botswana Corp airline 052 to Kasane at 10:15 AM. Whereas Air Namibia airline 405 to Windhoek is the last flight that departs from Maun airport at 6:25 PM.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Maun Airport</h2>
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