Korean Airlines HL-7720 A333 in CMB on the 2nd Dec. Credit my Dad

Nice pic! It looks like this picture was taken in the evening after it's arrived from Male'. Are they doing well on ICN-CMB-MLE route since they launched in Feb 2013? Did your dad flew on KE?

Hi Banu, Dad flew UL to AUH. yes this flight just landed from MLE on her way to ICN. Last year he came from ICN on KE. Services were good at that time.

JAL flying again to Colombo.. According to airport.lk, it will be landing in Colombo VCBI at 00:10 on Friday the 19th Dec 2014. Hope to see the pictures of JL bird from Colombo.

strange unable to find any data for 8831... this could be another VIP flight??

hi.. check the following
http://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/jl8831/ this links shows the flight between CMB and Sendai

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/JAL8831 but according to this link it is between some other two cities..

check this out too!

I think it's a second time in this month JAL utilised Colombo as a technical stop for Sendai-Entebbe route. Any possibilities whether JAL can make a permanent schedule flight to Colombo? I remember Air Lanka used to fly two Japanese cities in the past. e.g. Tokyo Narita and Fukouka. Currently SriLankan operates 4 weekly nonstop flight on Colombo-Tokyo Narita route.

Its a xmas charity flight

This is purely a charter. FUK was for political reasons rather than economic reasons. JL have just come of a massive restructure after a bankruptcy filing. Colombo is a low yielding market I don't think JL would start CMB for the sake of starting. Plus UL and JL are both oneworld partners henceforth JL is better of piggy backing or taking benefit of code share.

See below JL and UL code share agreement:

oneWorld members JAL and SriLankan Airlines will commence reciprocal codeshare service, starting 02DEC14. Planned codeshare routes as follow.

JAL operated by SriLankan Airlines
Colombo – Bangkok
Colombo – Male
Colombo – Tokyo Narita

SriLankan Airlines operated by JAL
Bangkok – Nagoya Chubu (from 20DEC14)
Bangkok – Osaka Kansai
Tokyo Narita – Busan
Tokyo Narita – Nagoya Chubu
Tokyo Narita – Osaka Itami
Tokyo Narita – Seoul Incheon

Furthermore UL had plans to increase NRT 5X a week I below this did not materialise.

As per 26NOV12 timetable listing in Sabre, SriLankan Airlines is displaying overall service increase from 4 to 5 weekly on Colombo – Tokyo Narita route, from 13APR13. Planned new service to operate on Mondays from Colombo and Tuesdays from Tokyo.

Reservation for the new flight is not available, while further changes including “cancellation” of the new service is also likely. Schedule:

UL454 CMB2330 – 1150+1NRT 343 x24
UL455 NRT1320 – 1910CMB 343 x35

Did anyone notice there is 2 A318 or 319 parked in BIA since yesterday with UAE registration engine covered looks like a charter flight

What are the registrations?

I think A6-RRC and A6-RRJ ?? please confirm to us Azamh.

A6-RRC - http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/a6-rrc
A6-RRJ - http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/a6-rrj

Yes this are the aircrafts

Chennai bound AirAsia AK11 flight diverted to Colombo today morning.. 9M-AHY / A320