Air Madagascar is Madagascar's national airline. Founded in 1961 under the name Madair, it adopted its current name the following year.

It has been a member of the Vanilla Alliance since the alliance's founding in June 2015.

Air Madagascar serves numerous international destinations: in Europe, Paris with 4 flights per week, Marseille with one flight per week; as well as Indian Ocean islands such as Saint Denis (Réunion), Moroni and Anjouan in the Comoros, Mayotte, and Mauritius.

More recently, Asia (Guangzhou) has become an additional Air Madagascar destination with 2 flights per week. The airline reached 600,000 passengers in 2006, transported 7,000 tonnes of cargo, and achieved revenue of approximately 400 billion MGA.