Sri Lanka Aviation

Direct Sri Lanka flights by Vietnam Airlines from Aug 2026

ECONOMYNEXT – Vietnam Airlines is planning to fly direct to Sri Lanka from August 2026, connecting Colombo to Ho Chi Minh City of the South East Asian nation, an official said.
Vietnam Airlines will fly three times a week to Ho Chi Minh City, General Manager for India, Nguyen Trung Hieu said.

Sri Lanka’s Hayleys group is the General Sales Agent.

Direct flight to Vietnam has been a long-standing request of the Sri Lankan business community and travel agents.

Vietnam Airlines was part of a delegation accompanying the visit of Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Phan Thi Thang to Sri Lanka.

Hieu announced the plan during a meeting of Vietnam Sri Lanka business forum at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. (Colombo/Dec10/2025)

Will UL resume PEK and PVG services atleast this year ?

Really impressed with back to back announcements on new flight services to Colombo?

Any chance Saudia, Ethiopian and Vietnam Airlines start flights to Colombo? Any update on Air Astana flying CMB this winter?

Any update on extending runway at JAF to accomodate A320 / B737? We need Air Arabia and FlyDubai to resume Daily flights to HRI? May be Air Arabia can do Daily SHJ-JAF-HRI-SHJ and FlyDubai can do Daily DXB-HRI-JAF-DXB.

Beijing Capital Airlines in the first quarter of 2026 plans to launch service to Sri Lanka, as the airline schedules Beijing Daxing – Colombo route. From 31JAN26, A330-300 to operate 1 weekly flight, increasing to 2 weekly from 10FEB26 to 28FEB26

JD487 PKX0815 – 1420CMB 333 26
JD488 CMB1620 - 0155+1 PKX 333 26

Maldivian has also scheduled special flights to Colombo using its largest aircraft, the Airbus A330, today and next Tuesday.

https://edition.mv/news/46524?ref=home-latest

I was waiting for this official announcement ! Thank for sharing ! Jetstar Australia's venture on Colombo route be successful ? Any chance Jetstar codeshare with UL on CMB-LHR-CMB, CMB-MEL-CMB and Asian routes ?



Jetstar Australia - Colombo Flight schedules

From 25 August 2026** **Schedule valid for 25 August – 03 Oct 2026, other periods vary based on daylight savings.

Sri Lanka’s airports now fully operational; AASL

Colombo, Dec. 6 (Daily Mirror) - Sri Lanka’s airports continue to operate without disruption, with all scheduled flights running smoothly despite the recent adverse weather conditions, Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) (Private) Limited (AASL) said.

Accordingly, a total of 84 flight arrivals and 87 departures were recorded across the country’s airports yesterday.

Notably, no flight cancellations or weather-related diversions were reported.

AASL said that airport operations remain stable and that necessary measures are in place to ensure uninterrupted services for passengers and airlines.

https://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking-...ASL/108-327166

4R-ALR back in service ! But not sure it's been re-painted ! I I now flying to NRT !

4R-ANE & 4R-ABL are the aircraft still unactive

Seems 4R-ALL urgently needed re-paint :

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Is SriLankan cancelled the plan of increasing CMB-BKK from 14 weekly to 18 weekly effect Dec25 ? Can't see the new 4 weekly flight UL 406/7 on the booking anymore. SriLankan's CMB-BKK flight remains the same as 14 weekly.

Yes, came and on the way back to Iran now. Probably a charter or a humanitarian aid flight.
https://www.flightradar24.com/MRJ4839/3d5e3854

I see Meraj Airlines from Iran is listing CMB on its website and CMB website shows its due to arrive CMB at 4pm today. Is it new schedule flight operation to CMB?

Hi Team,

Hope our team mates in Sri Lanka are safe? praying for everyone! Any update on weather conditions and flight operations in Sri Lanka ?

Hi, As I got info from credible source, there is a modification for the Software, which is not mandatory to implement and which UL did not apply on their A320 fleet (Subjected to update as instructed), So UL A320s will not be grounded.

SriLankan Airlines says none of its Airbus fleet affected by software issue

SriLankan Airlines - which flies 9 aircraft from the Airbus A320 family (including A32-200 and A320neo) – yesterday said none of their planes were affected by a software issue that Airbus warns might cause intense solar radiation to corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls in the A320 family of aircraft.

“None of our aircraft are affected,” said Deepal Perera, the airline’s Manager of Corporate Communications, adding he obtained the information from SriLankan Engineering. He was unable to immediately provide further details, such as whether the France-based Airbus had been in touch with SriLankan over the software issue which has led to canceled and delayed flights around the world.

It was therefore unclear how SriLankan knew that it was “not affected”, and whether this meant none of its A320 planes would need the software update.

In a statement released on Friday, Airbus said it had identified “a significant number of A320 Family aircraft currently in-service which may be impacted”. It said “analysis of a recent event involving an A320 family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls”.

“Airbus has worked proactively with the aviation authorities to request immediate precautionary action from operators via an Alert Operators Transmission (AOT) in order to implement the available software and/or hardware protection, and ensure the fleet is safe to fly,” it continued. “This AOT will be reflected in an Emergency Airworthiness Directive from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).”

“Airbus acknowledges these recommendations will lead to operational disruptions to passengers and customers,” it concluded. “We apologise for the inconvenience caused and will work closely with operators, while keeping safety as our number one and overriding priority.”

News reports said that the relevant computer code may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a JetBlue plane last month.

Airbus’s A320 fleet numbers about 6,000 aircraft worldwide.

SriLankan Airlines cancelled and delayed a large number of flights since Friday but said it was owing to the effects of inclement weather and Cyclone Ditwah which prevented its staff from arriving at work.

Source: Sunday Times