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  • Thanks SpookyFlyer.. nice work!

    Here are some more pics!





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    • Wow this is great! An awesome development for SL tourism and the aviation industry. Turkish Airlines, Korean Air and now British Airways have all commenced flights this year. Hope more routes will continue to build to CMB!

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      • Originally posted by Dave View Post
        Departed 19.43, like UL (Usually Late) :-)
        Any possibilities British Airways would operate the Colombo service from Heathrow instead of Gatwick ? There are more Sri Lankan community living around in Heathrow. I doubt they will go upto Gatwick to take the BA flight.

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        • Originally posted by Banuthev View Post
          Any possibilities British Airways would operate the Colombo service from Heathrow instead of Gatwick ? There are more Sri Lankan community living around in Heathrow. I doubt they will go upto Gatwick to take the BA flight.
          Too much competition i think from Heathrow, several airlines including UL of course fly London-Colombo, although most operate via the middle east..

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          • Originally posted by Banuthev View Post
            Any possibilities British Airways would operate the Colombo service from Heathrow instead of Gatwick ? There are more Sri Lankan community living around in Heathrow. I doubt they will go upto Gatwick to take the BA flight.
            Book cheap flights from London Gatwick Airport with British Airways today. Our flights include a generous baggage allowance, award winning service and more.


            In the link above if you click BA"s Gatwick destinations, they are all leisure destinations such as Orlando, Las Vegas etc. BA's CMB initiative is purely to tap leisure travelers and doesn't looks like it is ready to cater regular business or diaspora travelers. If they are to start from LHR it will be direct service and will compete with UL (Another Oneworld member - hopefully)

            BTW, Banu any update on UL joining "Oneworld" (on track/ behind /still not sure / will be in by .......) !!

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            • Originally posted by sfernando34 View Post
              Wow this is great! An awesome development for SL tourism and the aviation industry. Turkish Airlines, Korean Air and now British Airways have all commenced flights this year. Hope more routes will continue to build to CMB!

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              • On the 14-Apr-2013, EK4906 flight from DXB to HKG was seen on CMB ? Any body know why this flight visited CMB ? Shed some light on this ! Normally Emirates doesn't operate on DXB-CMB-HKG pax route. But they did Freighter ops on DXB-CMB-HKG some time back that now stopped.

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                • Plane Spotting in London Heathrow!

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                  • Originally posted by Banuthev View Post
                    On the 14-Apr-2013, EK4906 flight from DXB to HKG was seen on CMB ? Any body know why this flight visited CMB ? Shed some light on this ! Normally Emirates doesn't operate on DXB-CMB-HKG pax route. But they did Freighter ops on DXB-CMB-HKG some time back that now stopped.
                    emergency landing maybe?

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                    • Originally posted by SpookyFlyer View Post
                      emergency landing maybe?
                      No actually EK 348 grounded in CMB due to crack in fusalrge or something. Then they delayed the flight untill 2000hrs and used another 777 which came as EK652 from dxb-mle-cmb insted of grounded 777 to SIN. again they brought a chater 777 fom dxb to operate EK 653 from CMB-MLE-DXB...

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                      • Another Aussie charter ran between XCH - CMB - XCH last week for an obvious reason.

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                        • Originally posted by Sakith View Post
                          No actually EK 348 grounded in CMB due to crack in fusalrge or something. Then they delayed the flight untill 2000hrs and used another 777 which came as EK652 from dxb-mle-cmb insted of grounded 777 to SIN. again they brought a chater 777 fom dxb to operate EK 653 from CMB-MLE-DXB...
                          Thanks bro for this news.

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                          • Originally posted by umedhah View Post


                            Hey Banu - i took this pic on the 30th of Dec 2012 around 2230 - 2300 hrs, looked like it had an orange strip at the back of the tail. Similar to IndiGo but slightly different.
                            Just found this A319 operate by Australia Government - Department of the Environment and Water Resources. It transports the deported Sri Lankan assylum seekers from XCH to CMB. http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politi...418-2i31q.html. This aircraft visited CMB also on 18/19 Apr 2013.

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                            • Good Info Friends, Very interesting !

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                              • Originally posted by banuthev View Post
                                just found this a319 operate by australia government - department of the environment and water resources. It transports the deported sri lankan assylum seekers from xch to cmb. http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politi...418-2i31q.html. This aircraft visited cmb also on 18/19 apr 2013.

                                a319??

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