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Sri Lanka air passenger traffic up 40-pct in Jan-Feb

Tourists arriving by air had risen 104.65 percent to 452,532 in the first two months

April 3, 2024 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines to lease four wide-body aircraft

Operating leases for 6 and 8 years

April 2, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Access Engineering wins work under airport expansion project

Identified work under BIADP Phase II

April 2, 2024 1 min read

Thai Airways resumes daily flights between Bangkok and Colombo

Thai Airways flights are operated daily

April 1, 2024 1 min read
Sri Lankan Airlines loses Rs8.4bn in 2024, despite exchange gain

SriLankan has large dollar debts, and its value fluctuates wildly along with currency movements.

After Indian Air crash, Boeing officials in Sri Lanka to talk on operations

Indian Air Boeing crash killed more than 290 people including 241 onboard

Sri Lanka to fly back 113 students from Pakistan as Coronavirus curfews relaxed

Sri Lanka will fly back 113 students stranded in Pakistan on April 21 in the first stage of an attempt to bring back cit...

Mahadiya Hamza
April 19, 2020 2 min read

SriLankan Airlines say Coronavirus flight suspension will continue till April 30

SriLankan Airlines says scheduled flights have been suspended till April 30, as many airports are closed and there are r...

April 15, 2020 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines to slash staff pay, defer payments as Coronavirus grounds fleet

State-run SriLankan Airlines said it will slash staff pay and negotiate deferred payments from suppliers with the fleet ...

April 2, 2020 2 min read
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SriLankan Airlines to stop outbound passenger flights from April 08

State-run SriLankan Airlines said it will stop flying passenger flights from April 08 to April 21, due to restrictions i...

April 1, 2020 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines fighting Coronavirus battle with 95-pct fleet grounded

As airlines around the world are halting operations and airports are closing SriLankan Airlines is one of the few carri...

March 28, 2020 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines, Colombo airport running lonely South Asia hub in Coronavirus battle

Sri Lanka's Colombo airport is facilitating daily and weekly flights allowing remaining tourists in the country to leave...

Mahadiya Hamza
March 25, 2020 2 min read

Maldives rescue flight to evacuate citizens from Sri Lanka amid Coronavirus

Maldives is sending an aircraft to Sri Lanka to evacuates its citizens in the island as a Coronavirus pandemic is sweepi...

March 24, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka Air Force says no aerial spraying of Coronavirus disinfectant

Sri Lanka Air Force has no plans to spray disinfectant from the Tuesday night as claimed messages circulated through so...

March 24, 2020 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines staff in national mission for Sri Lanka braving Coronavirus face discrimination

Staff of SriLankan Airlines who are flying aircraft braving a global Coronavirus epidemic keeping Sri Lanka connecting t...

March 24, 2020 2 min read

Anti-Coronavirus arrival ban at Sri Lanka airports extended to March 31

Sri Lanka has extended an arrival ban at international airports till March 31 as part of measures to contain an outbreak...

Mahadiya Hamza
March 23, 2020 1 min read
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Sri Lanka limits transit in Colombo to six hours for air travellers

Sri Lanka has limited the transit time in Colombo for international passengers to six hours and asked international pass...

March 18, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka airports to suspend arrivals till March 25 - Updated

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's main airport in Katunayake is suspending arriving passenger operations from March 19, as the c...

March 17, 2020 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines isolates crew members after pilot gets Coronavirus

SriLankan Airlines said a colleagues of a pilot who go infected with Coronavirus had been isolated.

March 17, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka Coronavirus battle stepped up with partial airport shutdown

Sri Lanka escalated Coronavirus (CORVID19) controls asking only food supply, transport, banks health and essential stat...

March 17, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka bans travel from UK, Belgium and Norway

Sri Lanka has banned travel from UK, Belgium and Norway from March 16 for two weeks, as part of Coronavirus controls, ex...

March 15, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka not yet considering travel restrictions to UK despite 'herd immunity' strategy

Sri Lanka is not yet considering flight restrictions to the United Kingdom, an official said, despite a 'herd immunity' ...

March 15, 2020 2 min read

Qatar bans Sri Lankans from going there over COVID19

Qatar has temporarily banned travellers from Sri Lanka and 13 other countries from entering the country, an advisory fr...

March 9, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka to quarantine travelers from Italy, Korea, Iran from March 10: official

Sri Lanka will quarantine incoming passengers from Italy, Korea and Iran on flights arriving from 0400 am on March 10 (T...

March 9, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lankan Airlines cancels flights to Kuwait on Coronavirus order

Sri Lanka's SriLankan Airlines has cancelled its daily flight to Kuwait after authorities in the Middle Eastern nation o...

March 7, 2020 1 min read

Dubai-based Emirates stops date change fees over Coronavirus, disinfects aircraft

Dubai-based airline Emirates said it will not charge date change fees for bookings made from March 07 to 31 and is disin...

March 7, 2020 1 min read