Category: Aviation

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 […]

KUALA LUMPUR, March 14, 2014 (AFP) – The needle-in-a-haystack hunt for a missing Malaysian airliner spread to the vast Indian Ocean Friday after the White House cited “new information” that it might have flown for hours after vanishing nearly seven days ago. Multiple US media reports, citing American officials, said the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777’s […]

Mar 13, 2013 (LBO) – The mystery over a missing Malaysia Airline flight has deepened with reports that it may have been airborne for hours, recalling earlier ‘ghost flight’ events with no communications.In 2004, A Beechcraft 200 Super King Air left Perth on a 600 kilometre journey and eventually flew 2,840 kilometres before crashing in […]

Mar 07, 2014 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines said it is on track to join OneWorld, a global alliance of carriers on May 01, following the successful completion of a review by its sponsor, Cathay Pacific Airways. As part of oneworld, SriLankan will all of its customers seamless connections across a global network serving almost […]

Feb 27, 2014 (LBO) – Oman Air said it had signed a deal take carry its passengers on Sri Lanka’s state-run SriLankan Airlines to China, Singapore and Maldives though Colombo. The code share deal also allows SriLankan to book passengers to Zurich via Mauscat on Oman Air flights. “This new agreement will increase both choice […]

SINGAPORE, February 16, 2014 (AFP) – Smaller passenger planes are increasingly in demand in Asia as budget carriers cash in on the region’s growing middle classes by expanding their reach to less prominent cities, industry executives say.So-called “regional” jets — short to medium-haul aircraft that generally seat under 100 passengers — were among the best-sellers […]