Sri Lanka Aviation

SriLankan Airlines to fly smarter with capital infusion, new biz plan

Sri Lankan Airlines to double flights from GCC states to Colombo

A substantial increase in inbound traffic, especially from the GCC, has encouraged Sri Lankan Airlines to nearly double their flight frequency to Colombo from the different destinations in the region.

“We have seen almost 43.2 per cent increase in passengers coming into Colombo from the GCC states,” Lal Perera, Sri Lankan Airlines Regional Manager for Middle East and Africa, said at a media briefing on Sunday night at the Al Falaj Hotel.

He added that the airline had decided to double its frequency from Muscat to Colombo.

“We have increased flights from Doha to Colombo from five to seven in a week,” he revealed. The airline will also operate daily flights from Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Kuwait. “We are trying to increase number of flights to five between Colombo and Riyadh and Jeddah.”

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SriLankan Air Taxi flies to Trinco

Trincomalee, Lanka’s favourite tourist destination, can now be reached in an hour from Colombo, with SriLankan Airline’s Air Taxi service.

Travel from Colombo by road to the east coast destination is about eight hours, but now the Air Taxi’s scheduled flights have cut down travel time to one hour.

http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/12/20/bus20.asp

When are ALA and ALD going to get refurbished?

4R-ALA - by the second week of Jan 2012
4R-ALD - by the second week of Feb 2012
4R-ADE - by April 2012
4R-ADF - by July 2012

Aviation sector investments rise

Private investments in Sri Lanka’s aviation sector is likely to rise to US $ 263 million next year. This figure is expected to increase to US $ 2.3 billion between 2017 and 2020.

http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/12/21/bus01.asp

Srilankan to give up A340 aircraft

Srilankan Airlines is to give up A340 aircraft which it is currently using as the company can no longer afford to maintain them, Minister of Civil Aviation Priyankara Jayaratne said in Parliament yesterday.

Minister Jayaratne who was speaking during the committee stage debate on the budget in the House said the A340 aircraft would be exchanged for A330

We gona miss our 3 Old Queens (ADA ADB ADC) and the adopted 2 Queens ( ADE ADF)

Dear All

I am new to this forum. It is nice to see a separate forum for Srilankan Aviation. I am having a query... Hope this is the right place to ask.

We, 1.4 millions of people from Madurai, India and 20 millions of surrounding district peoples are eagerly waiting for Srilankan airlines to start their first service. Through UL we can connect with many countries by taking connecting flight with excellent in-flight service & entertainment at affordable cost.

It seem like that day is very closer. Srilankan airlines put a stall in a Trade fair which is under progress in Madurai stating we are connecting soon. Everything seems good, but we are very eager to know more information about the flight timing, start date etc., Can any one very close to SLA provide us more details about it? Your information are highly appreciated. Thanks

Here are the pictures from the trade fair:

Photo Source: AllAboutMadurai

Welcome to Our forum Sundar.

Nice to have you here and many thanks for those nice pictures.

SriLankan Airlines resumes flying to Zurich

SriLankan Airlines began flying to the Swiss city of Zurich Thursday, the latest destination in the national carrier's expanding global route network.

The service will initially be twice-weekly on Monday and Friday and would be increased in the future, a statement said.

http://www.lbo.lk/fullstory.php?nid=370612346

ALA will already be in service by start of Jan 2012. More flat beds on more routes.

Apparently this is under consideration and a no date for launch has been confirmed as of yet.

Also a new member here. Beginning to find the Sri Lanka aviation very interesting. Especially because of the political and economic changes in the recent years.

Some of you might know that the huge software developer, Microsoft, have made a gaming series called Microsoft Flight Simulator. In this game/simulator you are the pilot of a plane and you can fly where ever you want in the whole world. No matter if it's a small single engine plane above Sri Lanka or in a B747 flying across the Atlantic Ocean or Pacific Ocean.

In the recent versions of the game/simulator, there has been an feature where you can add flying traffic to the virtual skies.

Many users want to get some of the real world airlines into their game/simulator. So some members have made models of the real world aircrafts, painted these models into the colors of the real airlines and then some members have made if all come alive by making flightplans, based on the airlines released schedules.

This also includes Sri Lanka, where both SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka have been made. So in my FS I can see SriLankan Airlines, Mihin Lanka or more or less any other airline in the world, flying in and out of the airports they visit in the real world.

I'm one of the members making the flightplans from the real world schedule. Currently I'm working on SriLankan Airlines, which is a whole new territory for me. The closest I've ever been to Sri Lanka (when making flightplans for Flight Simulator) is Druk Air from Bhutan. That's quite a few miles away from Sri Lanka, I know.

But at the same time I'm also a making what is called repaints. That's basically the liveries that you see on the models flying around in Flight Simulator.

And to give the best result you need some recent pictures/photos of the plane you are painting.

But sadly for SriLankan Airlines A320 it is very hard to get recent pictures.

When I searched for pictures, I came across this forum and especially this topic. It has given me many valuable informations that I'll use for both the flightplan and the repaints.

My main problem is the A320 with the registration 4R-ABK. I can only found very few pictures of it and I really need to know if it has a sticker (could be Visit Sri Lanka 2011 or the Hambamtoto 2018 logo) on it's left side, you know the side of the airport where the passengers are boarding the plane.

Anyone that can provide me with info about this?

Also... If anyone know if other A320's apart from 4R-ABM has got the URL changed from .aero to .com? What I can find is that only 4R-ABM has the .com, but I'm not sure about it.

I really must say that the SriLankan Airlines livery is one of the finest and most beautiful liveries I've ever seen. Especially the Red-Orange-Green Peacock Bird on the tail, is really a nice logo.

Thanks in advance