A new section has been added to Airline Industry Review with information on airlines and airports operating in the Sri Lankan domestic air travel market. The section is actively being constructed, but already has a wealth of information and aims to serve as a source on often less known...
Making local aviation history, an Airbus A380-800 touched down in Sri Lanka today for the first time. The unexpected first arrival was A6-EDN, an Emirates A380, enroute from Sydney and Auckland. Apparently the A380 needed to refuel and selected Colombo instead of its previously planned Singapore stop – due...
The following photos depicting the present progress of the Hambanthota Mattala Airport development in Southern Sri Lanka, were posted on Sri Lanka’s Airport & Aviation Authority website. The runway being constructed Terminal area being developed Terminal building being constructed Air Traffic Control Tower being constructed All photos copyright...
As posted on The Networker, SriLankan Airlines from 24th December is adding its fourth weekly frequency to Tokyo Narita. The new flight operates out of Colombo on Saturdays and out of Narita on Sundays, on board Airbus A340-300 aircraft. The flight will operate as UL454/5, the nonstop Colombo –...
Since the return of its wet leased An-12 freighters a few years ago, it seemed that SriLankan Airlines had stopped its cargo operations. There was next to none marketing about any freighter flights operated by SriLankan and the SriLankan Cargo website too had not been updated in a good...
The following map depicts present air services by Sri Lank based passenger airlines to India. Shown in red are the routes operated by SriLankan Airlines while shown in blue are the routes flown by Mihin Lanka (IATA:MJ). Both airlines are majority owned by the Governmenet of Sri Lanka and have...
SriLankan Airlines has gone through many significant changes in the last few years. It switched its management from an Emirates led one to a local one in 2008, and became a state-owned entity in 2010. SriLankan’s present CEO, Mr. Manoj Gunewardena is due to step down from his post...
Following on from yesterday’s report, let’s find out the orders recorded for day 2 of the Paris Air Show. Airbus -Transasia Airlines signed up for six Airbus A321neo aircraft -CIT signed a MoU for acquiring up to 50 Airbus A320neo aircraft -Garuda Indonesia placed orders for 25 A320 aircraft,...
SriLankan Airlines, effective 6th July, is increasing flights to Tiruchirapally(Trichy) from 10 to 13 weekly. Flights operate twice daily except on Sunday. Please see my article at The Networker for the flight schedule.
A cloud of ash from the Chilean volcano in the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcanic complex has made its way to Australasia, causing widespread disruption to commercial flying. Qantas (IATA:QF) and its subsidiary jetStar (IATA:JQ) have so far cancelled about 88 flights today – which includes the majority of its domestic and...