Posts Tagged "Mihin Lanka"

Map of interest: Sri Lanka to India

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...

Mihin Lanka to Add A321, launch Ahmedabad, Dhaka, Malé and Jakarta

Mihin Lanka ( IATA : MJ ) will be adding an Airbus A321 aircraft and launching four new routes from 1NOV2010. The new aircraft added is an Airbus A321-200. The aircraft, MSN3106, is an ex- easyJet ( G-TTIF ) bird and has been built in 2007. It ended its...

SriLankan Minimises Losses, Unveils Ambitious Expansion Plans

SriLankan Airlines had minimized losses to the year ending 31st March 2010 and unveiled ambitious expansion plans, at the carrier’s 31st Anniversary held at Colombo Bandaranaike airport yesterday. The carrier’s losses to the period ending 31st March were LKR 6.06b ( USD53.7 million ), compared to LKR 9.99b an...

Mihin Lanka plans to start Kuwait flights

Mihin Lanka ( IATA : MJ ) is planning to start flights to Kuwait City ( KWI) . The tentative schedule is provided below. MJ403 CMB-DXB-KWI 1310-1630-1730-1815 246 EQ Unknown MJ404 KWI-DXB-CMB 1915-2145-2245-0445+1 246 EQ Unknown The airline probably must have taken delivery of another aircraft for this flight...

EXCLUSIVE : SriLankan Winter Update

SriLankan Airlines A330 on approach to Zurich, one of the axed destinations in recent past Photo copyright PixAir SriLankan has made the following changes to its Winter timetable. UL505/6 on day 1, 4 cancelled Morning LON flt. on 2,6,7 will operate via AUH as follows 511/2 CMB-AUH-LHR-AUH-CMB 0010-0315AUH0415-0900 LHR...

SriLankan 4R-ABE now with Mihin Lanka

SriLankan Airlines aircraft, 4R-ABE, is now with Mihin Lanka. Since the wet-leased Boeing 737-800 aircraft’s lease period ended ( with no good use of this brand new aircraft taken, thanks to delays in obtaining approval by management ), the government had asked SriLankan ( UL ) to allocate an...

SriLankan Airlines Summer Update

With effect from April 2009, SriLankan has cancelled following destinations. Goa, Hyderabad, Calicut, Kochi, Coimbatore The destinations will be moved to Mihin Lanka with route rights and aircraft and crew will be provided courtesy of SriLankan. SriLankan has already allocated an A320-200 aircraft for this and insiders suggest that...

Neither-Here-Nor-There strategy by SriLankan

( Photo by Premshree Pillai ) SriLankan Airlines, since the control changed hands in April, has been steadily focused on cutting its frequencies and minimizing utilization, if you look closely. Singapore and Kuala Lampur, which received two daily triangular flights each, now running as a single daily terminator flight,...

Mihin Lanka website relaunched, service resumption confirmed

Mihin Lanka ( MJ ) has relaunched its website with a revamped look and the resumption of services in finally confirmed now. The airline has now settled the overflying problems with India and would be resuming ops sometime in the first week of January. The website states as they...

Mihin Lanka receives First Aircraft, Postpones Launch

Mihin Lanka has received its first aircraft, a Boeing 737-800, on a three month lease from Transavia of France. About the aircraft : The registration is F-GZHE ( as I had already predicted ), a Boeing 737-8K2, pictured above. Type : 737-800 ( sub version 8K2, refering to the...