Sri Lanka Aviation

Serendib · 28-10-2025, 07:56 AM

Edelweiss Air launches seasonal Zurich-Colombo flights

Edelweiss Air, a member of the Lufthansa Group, operated its inaugural seasonal flight from Zurich to Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake this morning (28), marking the start of the winter travel season.

Flight WK-064 arrived at 10:03 a.m. aboard an Airbus A340, carrying 257 passengers — 27 in business class and 230 in economy along with 12 cabin crew. The aircraft was welcomed with a traditional water salute.

The airline will operate two flights per week between Zurich and Colombo every Tuesday and Saturday during the winter season. The return flight departed for Zurich at 11:45 a.m.

Edelweiss Air launches seasonal Zurich-Colombo flights

https://www.themorning.lk/articles/ZM85EuUQ4Zh1r2Bg5Iuv

Edelweiss Air, a member of the Lufthansa Group, operated its inaugural seasonal flight from Zurich to Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake this morning (28), marking the start of the winter travel season.

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Serendib · 27-10-2025, 10:50 AM

Photos. source: BIA

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Serendib · 27-10-2025, 08:05 AM

Kuwait Airways resumes flights to Sri Lanka

Kuwait Airways’ resuming its flights to Sri Lanka after a four-year hiatus, arrived at the Katunayake International Airport this morning (27). Kuwait Airways’ flights were suspended on December 31, 2021. An A-320 Neo aircraft was deployed by Kuwait Airways for this maiden flight.

The aircraft arrived from Kuwait City International Airport at 08.40 this morning and was welcomed at the Katunayake Airport with a water salute.

The aircraft was carrying 94 passengers and 6 crew members and departed from Katunayake Airport for Kuwait City at 09.40 in the morning with 105 passengers and 6 crew members.

The welcoming ceremony of the aircraft was attended by the Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka, Sunil Jayaratne, the Acting Ambassador of Kuwait to Sri Lanka, Al Muhana, and a large number of people involved in the aviation sector.

From now on, Kuwait Airways aircraft will operate between Kuwait City International Airport in Kuwait and Katunayake Airport in Sri Lanka every week on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

https://www.dailynews.lk/2025/10/27/...-to-sri-lanka/

banuthev · 26-10-2025, 06:19 PM

SriLankan Airlines have resumed UL505/6 flights between Colombo and London Heathrow for NW25.

Please find the video i recorded today.

MAW2000 · 26-10-2025, 04:40 AM

Hi All,

Greetings!
Please refer to the Winter Schedule of 8D/EXV :

Winter 2025
26.10.2025 (06.11.2025 / 01.12.2025) to 25.03.2026
Week	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7
Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
0330	8D721		8D721		8D721		8D721
0635	8D921	8D921	8D921		8D921	8D921	8D921
1025	8D922	8D922	8D922		8D922	8D922	8D922
1150	8D722		8D722		8D722		8D722
1320	8D821	8D821	8D821	8D821	8D821	8D821	8D821
1440		8D923		8D923		8D923
1735
1825		8D924		8D924		8D924
1915	8D931	8D931	8D931	8D931	8D931	8D931	8D931
0005	8D822	8D822	8D822	8D822	8D822	8D822	8D822
0305	8D932	8D932	8D932	8D932	8D932	8D932	8D932

Notes :

Notes
8D821/2	New timings effe : 06 Nov
8D721/2	Day 1 flights effe : 01 Dec
8D931/2	Day 1, 5 flights effe : 01 Dec
8D921/2	Day 2, 6 flights effe : 01 Dec

ULlove · 25-10-2025, 06:13 PM

Originally posted by MAW2000

Agree, if going with Boeing, It should not be B737 Max jets, its should be B787-9s, B777 is too large and no requirement to operate such a big aircraft, UL needs to maintain separate Boeing and Airbus warehouses and Crew sets which complicating operations, so better to stick with Airbus for a while.
Some very younger A320-232WLs and A320-214WLs are there and few A330-243s are there as I heard. (Recently few airlines ceased their operations and declared bankruptcy)
UL can do something with its existing order of 4 Jets in Airbus order book, (As I mentioned : Converting it to A321-251Ns {Better} or A330-841s) but it may take time.

problem is the management maybe working hard/ sleeping on the wheel, but being a State owned carrier, the approvals take their sweet time and by the time its approved the aircraft would have found another home. Very Sad.

Boeing!! lovely aircrafts.. but wrong time for transformation... probably once UL is privatised again

n863gt · 25-10-2025, 10:53 AM

Originally posted by MAW2000

Check this Screenshot:

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thai FB channel showing HS-XTS, but in some flynas colors(no titles, of course though)
this confirms that HS-XTS WAS MSN 1757.

n863gt · 25-10-2025, 10:49 AM

Originally posted by MAW2000

Question is about Capital investment to get (Purchase/ Dry lease) B787s (Not Rolls Royce 1000, should be General Electric) (Spare Engines, Simulator, Toolkits and Accessories, Crew Training) and the time to get jets!

they could try wetleasing from other carriers to observe practicality.
something similar to what 6E does with 77Ws and 7M8s

MAW2000 · 25-10-2025, 08:56 AM

Originally posted by MAW2000

Confirmed :

Check this Screenshot:

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MAW2000 · 25-10-2025, 08:52 AM

Originally posted by banuthev

Any chance SL gov wanted to get Boeing aircraft order as part of push to ease US tariffs?

Question is about Capital investment to get (Purchase/ Dry lease) B787s (Not Rolls Royce 1000, should be General Electric) (Spare Engines, Simulator, Toolkits and Accessories, Crew Training) and the time to get jets!

WizzWaveSien · 25-10-2025, 06:49 AM

Originally posted by n863gt

TK730 flight path this morning.
what was the reason for the flight path in the final few minutes(which was somewhat unusual)
weather?

Indeed, weather around CMB getting worse due to the depression happening around the Bay of Bengal, possibly for it to expand into a cylonic storm in the coming days.

n863gt · 25-10-2025, 05:23 AM

TK730 flight path this morning.
what was the reason for the flight path in the final few minutes(which was somewhat unusual)
weather?

banuthev · 24-10-2025, 05:39 PM

Originally posted by n863gt

MAW:
"Agree, if going with Boeing, It should not be B737 Max jets, its should be B787-9s, B777 is too large and no requirement to operate such a big aircraft, UL needs to maintain separate Boeing and Airbus warehouses and Crew sets which complicating operations, so better to stick with Airbus for a while.
Some very younger A320-232WLs and A320-214WLs are there and few A330-243s are there as I heard. (Recently few airlines ceased their operations and declared bankruptcy)
UL can do something with its existing order of 4 Jets in Airbus order book, (As I mentioned : Converting it to A321-251Ns {Better} or A330-841s) but it may take time."

I think there are a lot of ex-NK A320-232WLs being wfu from their fleet from a while now.
OG has some A320-251Ns stored since its shutdown.

I do agree that they should not rush to operate boeing jets because of the great differences between aircraft of the 2 manufacturers.
getting brand new jets would take a long time in this period.

apparently i am not able to quote up a post, hence the manually applied quotation.
and after this now im able to do it again?

Any chance SL gov wanted to get Boeing aircraft order as part of push to ease US tariffs?

n863gt · 24-10-2025, 02:14 PM

Originally posted by MAW2000

Confirmed :

"invalid file specified"
in other words its not opening.

n863gt · 24-10-2025, 02:11 PM

Originally posted by Haleef

There seems to be some confusion here. XTS was MSN 1757 and was just ferried. Not 1037. The UL deal with 1037 isn't totally off, but has run into delays.

can confirm that indeed MSN 1757 was delivered to XJ and not 1037.(as HS-XTS)
https://www.planespotters.net/airfra...rasia-x/r6kkgk

ex-SAA ZS-SXK and ex-XY HZ-NE23. (9y/o airframe)

Sri Lanka Aviation

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