Category: Aviation

Mar 02, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines said it is re-starting operations to India’s Kochi with a daily service and is expanding capacity to Karachi in Pakistan and a number of Middle Eastern destinations from March. The daily service to Kochi will start on March 27, increasing Sri Lankan flights to 63 per week. […]

Feb 28, 2011 (LBO) – SriLankan Airlines’ says it has started a float plane service to Kandy to cover World Cup cricket matches at the Pallekelle grounds in Kandy in central Sri Lanka. The airline said its flights to two matches in Hambantota in the south had been sold out. The service will run from […]

Feb 23, 2011 (LBO) – The resumption of ferry links between India and Sri Lanka after a war is not likely to affect air lines, especially budget carriers, at least initially, officials and analysts said. The ferry services are likely to cater to a different market than airlines unless or until voyages quicker than the […]

Feb 23, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run national carrier SriLankan airlines said it will sell paintings by an elephant through the in flight duty free sales collection. The paintings are drawn by Sindu an elephant at the Temple of the Tooth Relic in the central Sri Lankan city of Kandy. The elephants paints with […]

Feb 22, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Catering, a unit of state-run SriLankan Airlines, a firm slated for a public listing said profits for the 9-months to December 2010 rose 40 percent to 640 million rupees. SriLankan Catering also runs an industrial laundry facility in Katunayake and a 24-roomed transit hotel at the airport. Last […]

Feb 15, 2011 (LBO) – US aircraft Cessna is eyeing Sri Lanka’s fledgling domestic aviation industry after the end of a 30-year war has prompted liberalization of the sector and a tourism boom is increasing demand for international flights. “Because of the stability and peace in the country Sri Lanka now has a moment where […]

February 15, 2011 (AFP) – Maldives police have released a British man accused of sparking a bomb scare on a SriLankan Airlines flight, a spokesman said Tuesday, explaining he had been misunderstood by cabin crew. The airline faced attacks during Sri Lanka’s 37-year civil war that pitched Tamil Tiger rebels against government troops. Fighting ended […]

SINGAPORE, February 14, 2011 (AFP) – Eight-hundred million more people will travel by air by 2014, over a quarter of them from China, raising the need for more efficient traffic management and airports, IATA trade body said Monday. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) forecast an estimated 3. 3 billion air travellers in three years’ […]

KUALA LUMPUR, February 9, 2011 (AFP) – Southeast Asia’s largest budget carrier AirAsia said Wednesday it has no immediate plans to impose fuel surcharges despite sharply higher oil prices. AirAsia chief executive officer Tony Fernandes told AFP that the carrier will only consider imposing a ticket surcharge if the New York crude futures contract hits […]

February 7, 2011 (AFP) – Five Saudi Arabian nationals appeared in court in Colombo on Monday after their allegedly drunken misbehaviour on board a flight from Dubai to Indonesia forced the plane to land in Sri Lanka. The men became unruly during the journey, shouting abuse at passengers and refusing to obey orders from cabin […]

Feb 08, 2011 (LBO) – SriLankan Airlines has signed a new three-year wage agreement with the union representing aircraft technicians, as it expands its fleets and seeks more aircraft maintenance business, a statement said. Talks are also going on with the Flight Attendants Union and the Association of Licensed Aircraft Engineers (ALAE), the other employee […]

Feb 03, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines has begun flights to the Chinese city of Guangzhou (Canton), the national carrier’s fourth destination in China, a statement said. The airline said that operations to more cities in China with good frequencies will assist in promoting business and tourism between the two countries. Besides Guangzhou, the […]