Category: Aviation

May 4, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s state-run budget carrier has suspended operations indefinitely because of a lack of planes, an aviation official said Sunday.The budget airline, Mihin Lanka, has been dogged with financial trouble since it began commercial operations last April. “They (Mihin) don’t have an aircraft to fly passengers since the beginning of […]

May 02, 2008 (LBO) – Dubai’s Emirates Airlines, which owns a big stake in Sri Lanka’s national carrier, has reported group net profits increased 54.1 percent to 1.45 billion dollars for the financial year ended March 31, 2008. Group revenues rose 32.3 percent to 10.8 billion dollars during the period, the airline said in a […]

April 30, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines is giving a 25 percent discount for state-workers and their families who go abroad, the state-run national carrier said “This offer is valid year round for government servants, their spouses and dependent children under 21 years of age,” the airline said in a statement. Sri Lankan Airlines […]

April 25, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines has canceled several flights to the Indian subcontinent as more than a dozen pilots reported sick, officials said. Sri Lankan airline spokespersons were not available for comment, but the airline had individually informed passengers of flights that had been canceled. The affected destinations are said to include […]

April 21, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines and Mihin Air would be commercially run together after new chief executives take-over but the two airlines would remain as separate entities, officials said. But the government has so far not given him permission to leave the airline, he said. G T Jayaseelan, SriLankan’s former head of […]

April 03, 2008 (LBO) – Emirates airlines said it had started first class services to Sri Lanka on selected flights after it started operating new Boeing 777 aircraft on the Dubai-Colombo run from March 31. On Mondays and Thursdays the airline will make available up to 14 first class seats. “The return of First Class […]

April 01, 2008 (LBO) – Emirates airlines said it had non-stop services to Cape Town in South Africa from its hub in Dubai, cutting travel time for travellers from the Indian sub-continent and Europe. . “The new service will provide its customers in Europe, Middle East, the Indian-sub continent and Asia-Pacific with direct access to […]

March 30, 2008 (AFP) – Dubai’s Emirates Airlines said Sunday it would stop sharing routes with Sri Lanka’s national carrier when its decade-long management contract expires this month.“Code share arrangements between Emirates and SriLankan Airlines will cease from 31st March 2008 with the expiry of the management agreement,” Emirates said in a statement released here. […]

March 28, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s government has appointed treasury secretary P B Jayasundera as chairman of the national carrier SriLankan Airlines, whose management deal with Emirates Airline expires at the end of March. The government which owns 51.05 percent of the airline has also appointed Sunil Wijesinha, present chairman of tableware exporter Dankotuwa […]

Mar 24, 2008 (LBO) – Emirates airline has commercially launched an in-flight mobile telephone service costing 27 million dollars, partnering with the communications firm AeroMobile, the carrier said. “The first authorised mobile phone call made from a commercial flight was made today at 30,000ft enroute to Casablanca, onboard an Emirates Airbus A340-300 aircraft,” the airline […]

Mar 19, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines, already the biggest foreign carrier to India with over 100 flights a week, says it is intensifying efforts to attract Indians to fly its network and bring them to its hub in Colombo. More than 100,000 Indians visited Sri Lanka in 2007, with authorities expecting volume to […]

Mar 11, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines had carried 3.2 million passengers in 2007, up 100,000 from the previous year making it the largest volume of passengers it had carried since its creation in 1979, the airline said. Sri Lankan says it has won an award for being the world’s most efficient operator of […]