Sri Lanka Aviation

[Serendib]

Emirates has announced it will increase services to Colombo, offering customers 6 weekly flights starting 27 February.

[Aviational]

wow! good news! what about saudia? air arabia?

Air Arabia- From 2nd Mar
SHJ-CMB 2200 0355+1 TUE/FRI
CMB-SHJ 0455 0800 WED/SAT


Salam Air- From 11th Feb
CMB-MCT 0955 1255 THU

Flydubai- From 18th Feb
DXB-CMB 1855 0110+1 MON
DXB-CMB 1850 0050+1 WED

CMB-DXB 0210 0535 TUE
CMB-DXB 0150 0515 THU

Saudia- No update

[SHOCKWAVE]

Emirates has announced it will increase services to Colombo, offering customers 6 weekly flights starting 27 February.

EK is already operating 6+ flights per week but only 3 are dedicated for pax, rest is freighter.

[banuthev]

Jazeera Airways to fly Kuwait-Colombo service from 23-Feb-2021

Flight Timetable

Tu.Su - 18:45 - 02:35 - KWI-CMB - J9551 - A320
Mo.We - 03:35 - 07:05 - CMB-KWI - J9552 - A320

Good to see the beautiful Jazeera A320neo flying to Colombo !

Aaqib - will it affect the Kuwait Airways flights operating between KWI and CMB? I can see only once weekly KU flight to Colombo until 29-Mar-2021.

[Aaqib]

Good to see the beautiful Jazeera A320neo flying to Colombo !

Aaqib - will it affect the Kuwait Airways flights operating between KWI and CMB? I can see only once weekly KU flight to Colombo until 29-Mar-2021.

This is a really good move! I’m a huge supporter of the LCC concept and yes it would definitely affect pax volume to and form KWI mainly the yield on KU... the same example can been seen in the case of Oman Air as a result of Salam Air beginning operations

Flew WY recently and the MCT-CMB sector had around 30 pax in total... upon clarifying as to why this was as i too was pretty surprised why the load factor was so low, the answer was “because of Salam Air”

I still feel that Mihin Lanka should have been around

Similarly Wizz Air Abu Dhabi (if so they begin operations to AUH) would negatively affect Etihad

Emirates is alright on the DXB sector as Fly Dubai is their subsidiary

[Abeetha-Flyer]

Good to see the beautiful Jazeera A320neo flying to Colombo !

Aaqib - will it affect the Kuwait Airways flights operating between KWI and CMB? I can see only once weekly KU flight to Colombo until 29-Mar-2021.

It will be really demanding if the Wizz Air Abu Dhabi decide to fly to Colombo as there is no any other low cost carrier to AUH from CMB.

[banuthev]

It will be really demanding if the Wizz Air Abu Dhabi decide to fly to Colombo as there is no any other low cost carrier to AUH from CMB.

I can see only 4 A321neo in the Wizzair Abudhabi fleet. Most of their destinations are in Mediterranean Ukraine and Middle east if im not mistaken. Do they have fleet order for expansion?

How did Rotanajet perform on the AUH-CMB route before cease the operations?

What do you think of the current ticket prices between AUH and CMB by Etihad. I wonder why SriLankan Airlines still hasn't resumed the AUH flights. Any update on Air Arabia Abu Dhabi ?

[Abeetha-Flyer]

I can see only 4 A321neo in the Wizzair Abudhabi fleet. Most of their destinations are in Mediterranean Ukraine and Middle east if im not mistaken. Do they have fleet order for expansion?

How did Rotanajet perform on the AUH-CMB route before cease the operations?

What do you think of the current ticket prices between AUH and CMB by Etihad. I wonder why SriLankan Airlines still hasn't resumed the AUH flights. Any update on Air Arabia Abu Dhabi ?

Wizz Abu Dhabi has already ordered more new A321 neos as they are looking forward to expand their service to Indian subsidiaries and Africa apart of the current destinations from AUH base.

As far as I know Rotana was mainly doing charter flights and it wasn’t going very well.

It shows 31,745 LKR to go from CMB to AUH next month. Hopefully Sri Lankan will be commencing operations soon. There is no any updates yet regarding Air Arabia Abu Dhabi.

[ULfan79]

SriLankan Airlines restructures leases, secures gov't funds

10:10 UTC

SriLankan Airlines (UL, Colombo Int'l) has renegotiated several aircraft leases saving the airline USD150 million over five years as part of efforts to put the carrier on a stronger financial footing, chairman Ashok Pathirage has said without revealing the lessors or the aircraft affected.

https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/100334-srilankan-airlines-restructures-leases-secures-govt-funds

[banuthev]

SriLankan Airlines restructures leases, secures gov't funds

10:10 UTC

SriLankan Airlines (UL, Colombo Int'l) has renegotiated several aircraft leases saving the airline USD150 million over five years as part of efforts to put the carrier on a stronger financial footing, chairman Ashok Pathirage has said without revealing the lessors or the aircraft affected.

https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/n...res-govt-funds

Any update on existing A350 order?

[banuthev]

SriLankan Airlines Route Network - Effective 21 February 2021

• I am surprised Jakarta flights are not in the schedule anymore
• There is no sign of SriLankan flights to Moscow yet
• I can't see SriLankan flying Colombo>Male>London flights
• SriLankan is using weird flight numbers e.g. UL1507 to DMM, UL1263 to RUH, UL1207 to MXP. Haleef AirCeylon - any reason for this?
• SriLankan has resumed 3 weekly flights to Delhi. 2 flights on Fridays with first departure 05:30am and next 06:20am. Wondering why UL is using two seperate A321neo instead of one A333?
• Any update on resumption of Paris flights?
• 3 seperate flights flying to Entebbe, Uganda on the 23-Feb-2021. All 3 operated by A330-343. Any reason for this flight

Passenger Flights
Bahrain	1 weekly
Dammam	3 weekly
Delhi	3 weekly
Dhaka	5 weekly
Doha	4 weekly
Dubai	2 weekly
Frankfurt	2 weekly
Guangzhou	1 weekly
Karachi	1 weekly
Kuala Lumpur	1 weekly
Kuwait	2 weekly
Lahore	2 weekly
London	3 weekly
Male'	9 weekly
Melbourne	2 weekly
Milan	2 weekly
Riyadh	2 weekly
Seoul	1 weekly
Shanghai	1 weekly
Singapore	3 weekly
Sydney	2 weekly
Tokyo	2 weekly
Cargo Flights
Chennai	3 weekly
Dubai	2 weekly
Entebbe	3 flights on the 23 Feb
Guangzhou	1 weekly
Ho Chi Minh city	2 weekly
Hong Kong	4 weekly
Karachi	2 weekly
Male'	2 weekly
Mumbai	3 weekly
Singapore	1 weekly

[AirCeylon]

SriLankan Airlines Route Network - Effective 21 February 2021[LIST][*]I am surprised Jakarta flights are not in the schedule anymore[*]There is no sign of SriLankan flights to Moscow yet[*]I can't see SriLankan flying Colombo>Male>London flights[*]SriLankan is using weird flight numbers e.g. UL1507 to DMM, UL1263 to RUH, UL1207 to MXP. Haleef AirCeylon - any reason for this?[*]SriLankan has resumed 3 weekly flights to Delhi. 2 flights on Fridays with first departure 05:30am and next 06:20am. Wondering why UL is using two seperate A321neo instead of one A333?[*]Any update on resumption of Paris flights?[*]3 seperate flights flying to Entebbe, Uganda on the 23-Feb-2021. All 3 operated by A330-343. Any reason for this flight

UL1207/1208 is special flight not confirmed as a scheduled flight, otherwise for Italy was dedicated UL581/582 UL585/586 and last one circular flight as UL571

[Serendib]

Not a good idea...they should look to boost frequencies to India

Sri Lanka, India making progress in resuming flights under ‘air bubble’

[banuthev]

Sri Lanka, India making progress in resuming flights under ‘air bubble’

Flight Reservation is already open for Vistara and Goair flights to Colombo. Both of these airlines are flying Colombo from 1 or 2 March 2021.

STD	TO	FLT	AFT	MO	TU	WE	TH	FR	SA	SU	AIRLINE
08:00	MUMBAI	UK0132	A320	MO	TU		TH	FR	SA	SU	AIR VISTARA
15:00	BENGALURU	G80048	A320	MO	TU		TH	FR	SA	SU	GOAIR
15:10	DELHI	G80040	A320	MO	TU		TH	FR	SA	SU	GOAIR
15:15	DELHI	UK0138	A320	MO	TU		TH	FR	SA	SU	AIR VISTARA

[Aaqib]

Flight Reservation is already open for Vistara and Goair flights to Colombo. Both of these airlines are flying Colombo from 1 or 2 March 2021. [TABLE="width: 847"]

Would be great to see Vistara back!

Any idea when UL would resume services to India