Category: Aviation

Dec 08, 2012 (LBO) – Korean Air would resume flying to Sri Lanka three times a week from March 09, after a lapse of 28 years, which can boost tourist arrivals from that country, officials sai d. A Seoul-Colombo return ticket is priced at around 90,000 rupees. The airline quit the country in 1984. Sri […]

Dec 06, 2012 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines said it has increased flights to Riyadh by three to five a week from December 13. “The Middle East is considered as one of the fastest growing regions in the world,” SriLankan Airline’s Head of Worldwide Sales, Lal Perera said in a statement. SriLankan now flies to […]

Nov 16, 2012 (LBO) – SriLankan Airlines is to increase its training of airline personnel to help alleviate looming skills shortages in the region, an aviation forum was told. “We’re looking at capturing a part of that. Ticketing and cargo are very popular and will generate training opportunities. We aim to leverage our educated, skilled, […]

Oct 30, 2012 (LBO) – Singapore-based Tiger Airways, a low cost has increased flights to Colombo to four starting from the last week of October, after launching with three weekly frequencies in June 2012. From October 28, the airline also increased frequencies to Hong Kong (up to 26), Taipei (up to 09), Bangkok (39), Guangzhou, […]

October 24, 2012 (LBO) – State-run SriLankan Airlines said it is opening a sales office in Wennappuwa, north of Colombo in the island’s north western region. 2nd Chance Travels (Pvt) Ltd will operate the passenger sales agency office at No 92, Main Street, Wennapuwa. The airline’s Wennapuwa office will be the third official sales agency […]

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. .