Category: Aviation

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 […]

Mar 04, 2008 (LBO) – SriLankan Airlines will launch its own frequent flyer program after the Emirates ‘Skywards’ program ends with the termination of their management contract in March, the airline said. “All SriLankan Airlines’ Skywards members will continue their membership and rewards will continue to be available on Emirates flights and from other leisure […]

Feb 28, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan travellers reserving tickets through Emirates’ newly commissioned online booking portal, can win free win tickets until the end of March, the company said. Emirates contest website The promotion which is valid till end of March, requires travellers to book their seats on-line on Emirates operated flights. “We have […]

Feb 01, 2008 (LBO) – India’s Cochin airport said a delegation had met Sri Lanka’s president Mahinda Rajapakse and visited a site in the island’s south where it is interested in developing a new airport. Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) said it had met aviation minister Chamal Rajapakse who is the president’s brother, central bank […]

Jan 28, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airlines, the island’s national carrier, has steadily increased the number of passengers in transit to 46 percent from 28 percent in 2003/04 in an attempt to make Colombo a hub for air travel, a statement by the carrier said. According to Sri Lankan, it has recorded a steady […]

Jan 17, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state owned budget carrier Mihin Air is promising better results this year after burning up its capital and clocking up a 1.4 billion rupee loss in the first year of operations. In a wide ranging interview with Shamindra Kulamannage from ETV’s Lanka Business Report (LBR) program Mihin chief […]

Jan 14, 2007 (LBO) — Sri Lanka’s state budget carrier Mihin Air will work on a common commercial strategy with full service SriLankan Airlines, after a management deal with Emirates ends in March, a top official said. “It’s very important after March that SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka work on a common commercial strategy,” Mihin […]

Jan 10, 2007 (LBO) – A SriLankan Airlines aircraft has been damaged at Franfurt airport shortly before take off, but passengers had been housed in hotels and are being flown to Colombo on other carriers, a company spokesman said. In October 2007, another aircraft scraped the wing of a SriLankan Airlines aircraft while it was […]