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...
First photos of SriLankan Airlines’ next factory fresh Airbus A320, MSN4869 (to be registered 4R-ABN) has emerged following its first flight. Photo courtesy of Hamburg Finkenwerder Spotter The new aircraft, the second factory fresh Airbus A320 for SriLankan, made its first test flight on 4th October and...
SriLankan Airlines’ Airbus A320-232 aircraft, MSN 2914 (4R-ABH), has had its lease period ended and has now been taken up by TransAsia Airways of Taiwan. SriLankan took delivery of MSN2914 in 2009, on a two year operating lease. The aircraft last appears to have operated for SriLankan on 15th...
Sri Lankan business-focused website LMD has published an interview with SriLankan Airlines’ new CEO Mr. Kapila Chandrasena. He makes some interesting remarks and mentions about the airline’s future expansion while hinting about a new destination in Africa. Worth having a look at.
SriLankan Airlines has loaded a number of changes to its medium haul network from Winter 2011 season onwards. The following changes have been confirmed by the airline. All changes are with effect from the week of 23 December 2011. Chennai Flights to be increased from 15 to 27 weekly....
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 –...
SriLankan Airlines flight UL422 returned to Colombo yesterday after it incurred a (yet to be reported) technical difficulty in-flight. The Bangkok and Hong Kong bound flight left Colombo at 0727L (ETD 0720) and returned to Colombo at 0831L for a safe landing. The actual issue that the aircraft incurred...
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 fleet list has been updated with new information, including the change of MSN4915 registration to 4R-ABO (This author had previously expected that the letter O will be omitted, as they recently did with the letter I). - SriLankan will be temporarily increasing their Dubai flights to twelve...