Sri Lanka Aviation

Thanks for sharing the update !

Azur Air is planning to connect Mattala with Novosibirsk with One off charter and two weekly flights with Samara.

In my opinion Sri Lanka Airports should be operated by below airlines and destinations.

Jaffna Airport - Local airline would've connected Jaffna with Chennai, Trivandrum, Trichy, Madurai, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, Kochi, Kozhikode, Hyderabad, Tirupathi, Mangalore, Mysore, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Doha and Singapore

Mattala Airport supposed to attract passengers from China, Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Below airlines can serve Mattala : Hainan Airlines, Air Astana, Uzbekistan Airways, Redwings, Azur Air, Skyup, Azerbaijan Airlines, Enter Air, Smart Wings, Hong Kong Airlines, Belavia, Arkia, Georgian Airways, Armenia Airways, Wizzair, S7 Airlines, Flyone, Air Serbia, Flydubai, AirAsia, Iran Airtour, Air Albania, Bulgaria Air

Colombo Bandaranaike International Airport supposed to focus non-seasonal operators. Below airlines can serve Colombo : Japan Airlines, Air China, Korean Air, China Eastern, Cathay Pacific, Vietnam Airlines, Chongqing Airlines, Thai Airways, Malaysia Airlines, Thai AirAsia, Myanmar Airways, AirAsia, Singapore Airlines, Flyscoot, Garuda, Qantas, Biman, Nepal Airlines, Air India, Indigo, PIA, Maldivian, Air Seychelles, Air Mauritius, Kenya Airways, Ethiopian, Egypt Air, Royal Jordanian, Oman Air, Salam Air, Emirates, AirArabia, AirArabia Abu Dhabi, Etihad, Qatar Airways, Gulf Air, Flynas, Saudia, Riyadh Air, Kuwait Airways, Iran Air, British Airways, KLM, Air France, Lufthansa, ITA Airways, Austrian Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, Aeroflot, Swiss Air, Turkish Airlines, Flydubai, China Southern, EVA Air

Fitsair better serve below international destinations from Colombo: - Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Dhaka, Ahmedabad, Gaya, Varanasi, Goa, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Trichy, Madurai, Coimbatore, Kochi, Kozhikode, Trivandrum, Male, Gan, Muscat, Karachi, Dubai, Bahrain, Doha, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Dammam, Riyadh, Jeddah, Manila, Yangon, Salalah, Ras Al Khahmah, Madinah and Domestic flights to Jaffna, Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Mattala. Routes better to be codeshare with UL.

SriLankan Airlines better serve below international destinations from Colombo : Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Jakarta, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Dhaka, Kathmandu, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkota, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Trivandrum, Kochi, Male', Karachi, Lahore, Muscat, Dubai, Doha, Kuwait, Bahrain, Dammam, Riyadh, Jeddah, Nairobi, Dar Es Salaam, Entebbe, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow, Rome, Milan, Zurich, Amsterdam, Toronto, New York.

Ratmalana Airport should be focussing on flight training, business jets and MRO facility for turboprops.

Do not get my comment as a negative one, But these destinations and routes are Hypothetical right?

i didnt notice the latter part. thanks for sharing!
then it may be overseas maintenance (since there's already an A333[4R-ALQ] in the 747 hangar)

Any new information on the to-be 4R-ALU(MSN#1037)?

Hi Banu,
Could you please grab any info or gossip about Local Domestic startup airline called as "Lotus Airlines" which was about to start before Covid 19 and plans were scrapped due to Covid 19, as far as I heard.

4R-ALN was doing engine run near Asiana Airlines Hangar at ICN.

Jet star Australia is starting flights from Melbourne to Colombo BIA .
Flights starting from 28th AUG 2026, as 3x weekly flights using a B787 Dreamliner with 300 seats. Competition for UL605 and UL607 routes.
I wonder why they didn’t introduce a Perth-Colombo flights instead. They might in the future for the remaining days of the week. UL should better start few more routes including Perth, some European destinations (Milan, Rome, Amsterdam) China (Beijing, Shanghai) and Nairobi, Seychelles covering Africa with seamless connections visa versa.

Excellent news! Hope Qantas follows soon from flights from SYD or MEL, Definitely PER soon. Jetstar can deploy their A321N on PER-CMB route on offpeak season and then B787 during peak season. Exicted to see CMB expanding!

In order to start all above mentioned routes, first of all Srilankan Airlines need more aircrafts.
UL should increase SYD-CMB flights and start CMB- PER route using a narrow body air bus 321 N at least 3 or 4 times weekly . Otherwise it will have tough competition future for Australia