Category: Aviation

BEIJING, May 26, 2014 (AFP) – China has flown warplanes on to and from a civilian road for the first time, state media said Monday, a technique which could be used for “emergency landings during wartime”. An image of a fighter jet taking off from a motorway in the central province of Henan — with […]

May 19, 2014 (LBO) – SriLankan Airlines and Finanair will begin code share flights from June 02, with flights to Frankfurt, Paris, Rome, London, Stockholm, Oslo and Copenhagen from Helsinki. SriLankan Airlines, Head of Commercial Operations Mohamed Fazeel said the partnership will expand the carriers reach to the Scandinavian region and increase tourist arrival to […]

BEIJING, May 7, 2014 (AFP) – Air France unveiled its new first-class seat in Shanghai on Wednesday, fuelling an international luxury-armchair race to win over Asia’s rising number of high fliers. The airline’s “haute couture” suite will feature a seat that reclines into a bed stretching 2.01 metres long and 77 centimetres across (6 ft […]

May 05, 2014 (LBO) – SriLankan Airlines said it had selected US based Honeywell Aerospace to supply and maintain avionics and auxiliary power units of Airbus fleet including existing aircraft and those on order. The contracts include an Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) maintenance agreement for SriLankan’s Airbus A320, A330 and A340 fleets. An APU is […]

May 02, 2014 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines has inked code-share deals with Finland’s Finnair and Siberia based S-7, with more deals in the offing, chairman Nishantha Wickramasinghe said. In a code share deal, airlines will operate aircraft on one or more routes with joint flight codes and sell tickets. Both airlines are members of […]

Apr 30, 2014 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines has joined OneWorld, becoming the first South Asian carrier to be part of a global alliance, officials said.Oneworld airlines carry more than 500 million passengers a year on 3,300 aircraft with annual revenues of 140 billion US dollars. SriLankan was officially inducted to oenworld at a ceremony […]

Apr 24, 2014 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines said it had struck a long-term maintain repair and overhaul (MRO) deal with IndiGo, a fast growing low cost carrier in India which has a fleet of 78 Airbuses. India has growing private budget airline sector after the state ended a monopoly that prevented citizens from providing […]

Apr 17, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka main international airport has handled 7.3 million passengers, including transit travellers, up 3.3 percent from a year earlier, while aircraft movements rose 5 percent to 50,802. During the year British Airways, Korean Airlines, Air Asia X and Turkish Airlines had started flying to to Sri Lanka from London, […]

Apr 10, 2014 (LBO) – State-run Sri Lankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka have lost 30.1 billion rupees (230 million US dollars) in 2013, with losses over the last five years totaling 89.9 billion rupees, official data shows. SriLankan Airlines made a loss of 28.6 billion rupees and state-run budget airline Mihin Lanka made another loss […]

Apr 09, 2014 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines said joining oneworld, a global alliance of airlines is expected bring it 25 million US dollars a year in incremental annual revenues and allow customers easy travel to the Americas. American Airlines and, its merger partner US Airways, from North America: LAN TAM from South America as […]

Apr 07, 2014 (LBO) – Abu Dhabi based Rotana Jet said will start flying to Sri Lanka’s Colombo and Matala airports from April 09, three times a week.The airline will use Airbus 319 aircraft from Al Bateen Airport in Abu Dhabi on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The airline said it hopes to increase frequencies to […]

Mar 15, 2014 (LBO) – As the US deployed aircraft and ships to the Indian Ocean capable of underwater listening facilities, more details have emerged about a possible flight path of the missing airliner painting scenarios of hypoxia or hijack. Hypoxia or oxygen starvation from loss of cabin pressure incapacitates crew, making then incapable of […]