Category: Aviation

Oct 16, 2012 (LBO) – A Beechcraft Super King Air, belonging to Pakistan’s civil aviation authority has landed in a newly built runway at the second international airport in Mattala in Southern Sri Lanka, the state information office said. The information office quoted Saliya Wickramasuriya, chairman of Sri Lanka’s airports agency as saying the aircraft […]

Oct 03, 2012 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines will invest 200 million rupees to build a flight kitchen at the second international airport which is being built in Hambantota in the island’s south, an official said. The second airport at Mattala, built with Chinese financing is expected to be completed by the end of the […]

September 03, 2012 (LBO) – National carrier Sri Lankan airlines is set to host the second International Air Transport Association (IATA) Global Human Capital Summit in Colombo giving a boost to the island’s push towards becoming a global aviation hub. “The IATA summit brings together the best in global aviation to share and discuss their […]

Sept 29, 2012 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan airline will trim loss-making flights to recession-hit Europe and focus on profitable routes closer to home, top officials told shareholders, as the airline lost money for the fourth straight year. The emergence of citizen-owned budget airlines in particular had made travel cheaper to ordinary citizens starting from Europe […]

Sept 25, 2012 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines has been bailed out with a 15. 4 billion rupee Treasury bond allowing the firm fill a gap in the balance sheet created by a record 17. 1 billion rupee loss in 2011. Sri Lankan Airlines at group level lost 17. 17 billion rupees in the year […]

Sept 20, 2012 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines said it is opening a sales office in Hambantota in the island’s south. Classic Travel (Pvt) Ltd, a fully owned unit of Sri Lanka’s Expolanka Holdings operate the agency office at No 30, Wilmot Street, Hambantota. .

Sept 16, 2012 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines said it will fly to Rome and Milan code sharing with Italy’s Alitalia from September 16. Flight no UL2028 will be operated in association with Alitalia, the airline said in a statement. .

Sept 03, 2012 (LBO) – India’s Mahindra group is targeting Sri Lanka with its range of small passenger aircraft which can boost domestic and short range air travel between neighboring destinations including the Maldives, a top executive said. The group’s chief of strategy, Shiprakash Shukla said its small aircraft is ideal to take smaller groups […]

Sept 03, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Heritance Hotels and Resorts, a brand of the island’s Aitken Spence group has won top green awards at a competition organized by the state tourism promotion agency. The awards for best employee of the year, and best restaurant manager of the year went to Kumara Karunaratne and Tushara […]

Sept 01, 2012 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines said it was moving to paperless flight deck operations dropping printed manuals in favour of an electronic flight bag (EFB) based on a mobile electronic device and new navigation procedures. “SriLankan has taken the lead in Asia to revolutionise the flight deck, realising the vision of paperless […]

Aug 29, 2012 (LBO) – India’s Spicejet will fly to Sri Lanka from September 20, using 78-seat Bombardier Q400, 78-seater turboprop aircraft, a media report said. The airline will fly from Madurai in South India at 12. 30 pm and land in Colombo at 1.30 pm. The Colombo – Madurai will is from 2. 35 […]

Aug 29, 2012 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines has upped weekly flights to India to 87 by increasing frequencies to Trivandrum by three to ten a week from August 30, the carrier said. The airline now flies to Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Mumbai, Trichy as well as Kochi and Trivandrum. “India is a high growth potential […]