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SriLankan Airlines flights disrupted as aircraft grounded

Several A330s grounded, but will be back in service next week

December 25, 2023 1 min read

SriLankan boosts fleet with A320: Correction

SriLankan Airlines leased an Airbus A320 aircraft to add to its fleet, this week.

December 22, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka to promote aviation sector jobs among school students

Civil Aviation Authority, SLBC and SriLankan Airlines to promote aviation sector jobs among school children

December 14, 2023 2 min read

Fuel supplying contracts in 10 airports for SriLankan aircraft

Bids were furnished by 12 aviation fuel supplying companies

December 13, 2023 1 min read
New SriLankan Board "stalled" buying of 2 wide body aircrafts over fitness concerns

Previous government has approved to acquire 4 widebody aircrafts

New A330 Airbus arrives in to boost SriLankan fleet

SriLankan now has 23 Airbus fleet

Airbus bribery: Govt yet to find whereabouts of Kapila Chandrasena - Mahindananda

Co-Government Spokesman Mahindananda Aluthgamage is saying that the state has not been able to trace the whereabouts of ...

February 5, 2020 2 min read

SriLankan Airlines volunteer flight crew brings back Wuhan students to Sri Lanka

SriLankan Airlines said a rescue flight from Wuhan, China staffed by a 16 volunteer crew carrying students stranded in t...

February 1, 2020 2 min read
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SriLankan Airline exec's wife offered US$16mn bribe for Airbus deal: Court filing

Airbus aviation group had offered 16 million US dollar bribe to the wife an employee of Sri Lanka's state airline for a ...

February 1, 2020 2 min read
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Airbus bribed wife of Sri Lankan airlines exec US$2 million - reports

Airbus hired the wife of a Sri Lankan Airlines executive as an agent, although she had had no previous experience in the...

February 1, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka flies out 33 citizens from coronavirus epicenter in Wuhan, China

A state-run Srilankan Airlines rescue had taken out 33 Sri Lanka citizens from the novel coronavirus epicenter in Wuhan...

February 1, 2020 1 min read
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Sri Lanka plans rescue flight to evacuate citizens trapped in China

Sri Lanka is planning a rescue flight to evacuate around 150 students and others stuck in China due to travel restrictio...

January 26, 2020 2 min read

SriLankan Airlines asked to fly to Paris, Frankfurt: Report

Sri Lanka's Tourism and Aviation Ministry has requested the national carrier to resume flights to Paris and Frankfurt, m...

January 22, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lankan passport queues introduced at Katunayake Airport

Sri Lanka's Immigration Department has introduced time-bound seperate queues for Sri Lankan passport holders at the Band...

January 15, 2020 2 min read
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'Damning' Boeing emails say 737 MAX was 'designed by clowns'

Boeing employees bantered about whether the 737 MAX was safe to fly and joked that the aircraft was "designed by clowns ...

January 11, 2020 4 min read

SriLankan re-routes flights to avoid Iran

State-run SriLankan Airlines said it was re-routing flights to London to avoid Iran, as a conflict escalation in the reg...

January 8, 2020 2 min read
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Four killed in Sri Lanka military plane crash

A Sri Lankan air force plane crashed in a tea-growing mountainous region Friday, killing the four crew on board, a milit...

January 3, 2020 1 min read

Ashok Pathirage appointed Chairman of SriLankan Airlines

Top businessman Ashok Pathirage has been appointed chairman of the national carrier SriLankan Airlines, he said.

December 16, 2019 1 min read
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Sri Lanka charter flights run into headwinds in 2018

Tourist arrivals via charter flights to Sri Lanka ran into headwinds in 2018, falling 14.5 percent from a year earlier t...

December 6, 2019 1 min read

India's Vistara starts flights to Sri Lanka as tourism recovers

Vistara, a full service carrier owned between India's Tata group and Singapore Airlines has started flights to Sri Lank...

Tania Madies
November 26, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka raises overflight fees after air navigation upgrades

Sri Lankan aviation authorities have increased overflying charges for aircraft flying through the island's airspace, the...

November 14, 2019 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines' Airbus deal flouted procurement rules: Auditor General

State-run SriLankan Airlines had violated government procurement guidelines in entering a deal to purchase and lease 14...

November 14, 2019 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines loses Rs41bn, balance sheet hole Rs168bn

State-run SriLankan Airlines had lost 41 billion rupees in the year to March 2019, with negative assets in the balance s...

November 13, 2019 2 min read

Faulty cable disrupts power at Sri Lanka's Katunayake airport, system to be upgraded in 2020

A fauly power cable at Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake caused a power outage for a half hour Satu...

November 9, 2019 1 min read

SriLankan Airlines, Air India in codeshare to Toronto

State-run SriLankan Airlines said it had started flights to Toronto via Delhi tying up with Air India.

November 8, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Expolanka in Rs830mn Sept quarter loss

Sri Lankan logistics group Expolanka Holdings lost 830 million rupees in the September 2019 quarter compared with a prof...

November 7, 2019 1 min read