Category: Aviation

June 04, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka and India should fully liberalize air services within the two countries, further strengthen links between them and set an example to South Asia, the head of the island’s state-run national carrier said. India then allowed private airlines to fly to Colombo and other South Asian countries. Sri Lankan […]

May 30, 2010 (LBO) – Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai will fly to Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo from June 23, offering one way tickets starting from 13,000 Sri Lanka rupees, media reports and the company website said. The airline is offering a Dubai-Colombo fare for 450 UAE dirhams (1 UAD Dirham = 31.1 Sri Lanka rupees). […]

May 19, 2010 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka Air Force is offering services to transfer by air passengers traveling to the main international airport at Katunayake, north of the capital Colombo, because of floods on the main road, officials said. A 15-seat Y-12 light aircraft can be charted by groups at the rate of 55,300 […]

BRUSSELS, May 17, 2010 (AFP) – The volcanic ash cloud playing havoc with airline schedules will mean the loss of 1,000 flights in Europe on Monday with airports in Britain and the Netherlands hit, the Eurocontrol agency said. The cloud was however expected to disperse over the day, Europe’s intergovernmental air traffic coordinating agency said, […]

LONDON, May 15, 2010 (AFP) – British aviation authorities were keeping a close eye Sunday on the possible return of a cloud of volcanic ash from Iceland after it forced the closure of parts of Northern Ireland’s airspace. The NATS said it was working closely with weather forecasters and the Civil Aviation Authority — Britain’s […]

May 15, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has offered 55 million US dollars to buy back a 43. 6 percent stake in national carrier SriLankan from Dubai-based Emirates airlines, a media report said. SriLankan itself was set up under the name of Air Lanka after another state airlines, Air Ceylon went under. Despite the bitter […]

May 13, 2010 (LBO) – Emirates airlines will sell its stake in Sri Lanka’s national carrier SriLankan if the price was right, a media report quoting chairman Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum said. Emirates Airlines owns a 43.5 percent stake acquired during the time it ran the airline on a 10-year deal, which it exited […]

May 10, 2010 (LBO) – Emirates will launch flights to the Iraqi capital Baghdad from July 1, 2010, the last remaining Middle Eastern destination to be frequented by the airline, a statement said. Baghdad will be Emirates’ 103rd international destination and one of six new destinations to be launched by the airline this year including, […]

May 10, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines will launch a four-times a week service to Shanghai in July 2010, the third Chinese city in its global route network, the airline said in a statement. The new service will expand the airline’s cargo carrying capacity between China and Sri Lanka, with rapid connections in Colombo […]

Apr 29, 2010 (LBO) – Emirates airlines said it was starting flights to the Dutch capital of Amsterdam from Colombo first and business class passenger being given complementary stays in Dubai. From Colombo, Emirates operates 21 services a week to Dubai. “Sri Lanka and the Netherlands are linked by centuries of history and trade, said […]

April 26, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines said it had given seats to all passengers to Europe who were held up after the continent closed its airspace by using extra flights and will resume its normal schedule this week. The last extra flight would leave Colombo on Wednesday April 28. SriLankan flies 19 times […]

Apr 23, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan exporters face higher transport costs with the flight disruptions caused by volcanic ash over Europe sending air freight rates shooting up and causing a space crunch, officials said. Tony de Livera, chairman of the Sri Lanka Freight Forwarders Association, said the flight disruptions have disrupted local businesses relying […]