Sri Lanka Aviation

But , at least UL should find a way to acquire the 4 a350s , which is already in the airbus order book.

And try to lease few more A330-900 (hopefully 2 will join soon).
If we can manage to get an A350,

But , at least UL should find a way to acquire the 4 a350s , which is already in the airbus order book.

And try to lease few more A330-900 (hopefully 2 will join soon).

And compete with the other airlines. If we can manage to get an A350, it can schedule for a destination like Toronto as a lot of Srilankan diaspora living in Canada and south Asians too. There are number of tourists visiting SL from Canada and USA according to stats. If the connection flights do very well (very important )from both CMB and YYZ and also from American cities to YUZ, all these people will attract to the UL direct flight and the fares must be reasonable too.

also, UL should resume destinations like Rome, Milan, Perth with good connecting flights from both ends.

Nairobi, Addis Ababa will definitely a good move in terms of both pax , cargo also the transit passengers via CMB (especially to south and east Asia). Again, this flight should connect to other cities in Africa from Nairobi/ ADD to get a high pax load.

6E connection flights are very challenging to UL as they cover all Indian cities , SEA and Middle East region. But UL should resume flights to kolkata and possibly kozhikode , Ahmedabad too.

LHR frequency should increase from 7 to 10/11 flights per week if possible. (used to be 9 during winter and SL peak season time). If not Gatwick would be another option too in addition to the LHR daily flight.

UL should resume Shanghai and Hong Kong once it resumes Beijing service. Possibly another Chinese city like Hangzhou or Xiamen to attract Chinese tourists.

UL should increase the frequency to Seoul Incheon from 2 to 4/5 per week.

No idea that why UL ceased Moscow flight (UL533/534) but it’s worthy to resume, as there’s no other airlines operating to CMB at the moment till Aeroflot resumes.

Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh , and Manila will be a good option for UL in terms of tourism and transit passengers from South Asia, Middle East possibly Africa via CMB. Possibly some cargo too.

At last, anything is possible if we got enough aircraft’s in the fleet to operate all the destinations.

It’s definitely the right time for UL and the SL government to plan the future of UL. If not, we’ll face the same situation as now in 2030s due to shortages of aircraft and continuing operations to all these destinations without any issues.

Notsure why UL slashed the China schedule last year. UL had the plan to resume CMB-PEK route from 27-Oct-25 but again UL's CMB-PEK route resumption moved to Summer 2026. Proposed plan of increasing frequency on CMB-ICN route from 2 to 3 weekly in Winter 2025 also moved to Summer 2026. UL will continue to fly 2 weekly to CMB-ICN.route in Winter 2025. I also notice UL is terminating daily CMB-AUH route from 08-Sep-25. Wonder what's going on.

MRE's been parked for a long while now.
D check in progress?

Is MRE going to return to revenue service for UL from tomorrow?

Supposed to do UL123 and 124 today. As of now 135 minutes delay.

Is MRE going to return to revenue service for UL from tomorrow?

Colombo Airport Schedule Flight Information - August 2025[LIST][*]Malaysia Airlines debuting A333 service on CMB-KUL flights in August 2025. Overall MH flights will be operated as 4 weekly B737 and 3 weekly A333;

MH A333 and not A339?

transponder was ON yesterday.

Any updates on MRE returning to service?