Sri Lanka Aviation

SriLankan Airlines reveals new aircraft, routes & alliance

SriLankan Airlines is to take delivery of new aircraft for the first time in more than a decade from August next year.

Delivered over an 18-24 month period, 10 new aircraft will join the fleet, flying routes to Europe & Asia.

Alongside six A330-300s, the airline has ordered four of the latest generations A350-900s. The new aircraft will increase seat capacity by 10-12%.

Chairman Nishantha Wickremasinghe said he hoped to move to daily flights on routes including Frankfurt, Paris & Rome over the next 18 months.

SriLankan Airlines is also set to join the Oneworld alliance in March or April 2014.

SriLankan Airlines SimNet Wins ICT Merit Award

SriLankan Airlines’ Flight Simulator Centre received a merit award at the Annual National Best Quality ICT Awards 2013 for its exclusively designed customer management portal (CRM)-SimNet.

The awards ceremony, organized by the Chartered Institute for IT Sri Lanka (BCSSL) was held recently in Colombo amidst a large gathering of IT professionals, stake holders, decision-makers and government representatives.

Developed in-house under a unique concept, the CRM portal - SimNet comprises a simulator reservation system with a state of the art booking calendar, simulator check-in / check-out system, reservation monitoring and usage statistics report generator for critical business analysis and a monthly revenue report. The software also comes with a simulator issue tracking system and a customer feedback acquisition facility which contributes to the enhancement of the Airlines’ training services.

The Simulator Centre of SriLankan Airlines, with its Airbus A320 & A330 full flight simulators offers a total flying experience on ground and facilitates training of pilots not only in Sri Lanka but in the region of South Asia. The flight simulators are certified by prestigious qualification awarding body EASA (European Aviation Safety Agency) as a Level D - FSTD: the highest standard that a FSTD can get, after extensive tests and evaluations carried on site.

any news about changing/modifying the logo?????

wow.. good news

Previously if any thing happens to Colombo...All flights were diverted to MAA...New runway was open sometime in late 80...earlier they used the existing taxiway as the runway (so it is not 40 Years)...requirement for runway maintenance/the second runway is due for a while (at least 10 Years); but the GOSL every time avoided addressing the issue...they got their priorities wrong

But you are right MAA is not a option for runway maintenance; thats why AASL have delaying this for last 10 years

I am not sure about B777...even B777-200 requires 2440M http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B777...and definitely not for A340s

satisfied???: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-96GcS6nEr4

Guys - keep an eye on first 787 service to Colombo by LOT. So far no any info in the flightaware and they have one 787 stuck in BKK due to some technical issue. Flight number 6521 (not 6651 as reported by airlineroute.net.

wow... looking fwd to see some pics

Absolutely Not...This is landing; What would be the take off take off weight...MTOW is 2240meters for 777-200 and there are only 88 x 777-200 built by Boeing

And here she is;




Hopefully there will be a water canon salute even though it is a charter flight.

dd a little u tube search abt the Toyama airport n found even 787s are landing on a 2000m runway !!!


n hear is the take off

@speedbird: use ur common sense if dis 777-200 landed on dis runway......of course it wud takeoff from the same 2000m runway on its return journey to tokyo.......

^^^buddy yes 777-200 aircraft will take off at 2000meter but at what weight? not at MTOW...do you know what MTOW means?

& do you understand the pages 8,9, 10 and 11



777-200 requires 2440 meters @ MTOW and 777-200 HGW requires 3400 meters @ MTOW

i knw wat MTOW is : Maximum Takeoff Weight....................FYI: 95% of the flights around the world do not run at full capacity!!!!! if u put MTOW to the equation, an A340, B777, B747 would have never takenoff from CMB where the rwy is 3350m