Sri Lankan Airlines to commence flghts to Bhubaneswar, the capital of the Indian state of Orissa

International flights should start operation by March 2013, Biju Patnaik airport director Sharad Kumar told TOI on Monday. The airport is planning to commission the state-of-the-art new domestic terminal in January. Thereafter the airport authorities will modify interiors of the old terminal to convert it into international terminal. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will create space for security check, excise and customs clearance, besides duty free shops. Sri Lankan Airlines, Thai Airways and Gulf Air are likely to operate flights from Bhubaneswar to Colombo, Bangkok and Dubai



I don't know how accurate this article is, but I'm sure a lot of people will find this hard to believe.

SriLankan Airlines - Summer 2013 Network Update as per 25-Dec-2012 Display

According to Amadeus Display of 25th Dec 2012, SriLankan Airlines is planning the Summer 2013 network as below with a current aircraft fleet strength of 8 = A320, 7 = A330 & 6 = A340. It looks like total number of 264 UL flights operated in Winter 2012 have been reduced to 256 flights in Summer 2013 effec 31st March 2013.

* Increasing Muscat flights from four to five weekly;
* Downgrading Frankfurt flights from five to four weekly;
* Downgrading Riyadh flights from five to two weekly;
* Downgrading London flights from Ten/Twelve weekly to seven weekly;
* No signs of new destination yet, however there must be few more changes expected to be made in February 2013;

The following flights to be remain the same as Winter 2012;

* Three weekly flights to Hong Kong via BKK, Jeddah and Rome;
* Four weekly flights to Tokyo, Guangzhou via BKK, Dammam and Paris;
* Five weekly flights to Beijing via BKK and Shanghai via BKK;
* Single Daily flights to Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Karachi, Abu Dhabi, Doha and Kuwait;
* Overall Dubai flights will be operated with 9 flights, which also includes CMB-DXB-DME two weekly onboard A320;
* Double Daily flights to Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Trichy, Kochi and Trivandrum;
* Overall Bangkok service will be operated with 17 flights;
* 28 flights to Chennai and the Male' gets 40 flights;

SriLankan Airlines - Beijing, Shanghai & Guangzhou - Operation Changes

SriLankan Airlines during Chinese New Year in Feb 2013 is operating extra service between China and Sri Lanka, where it’ll operate on non-stop basis. Planned operational schedule and dates as follows.

Colombo – Beijing

UL1888 CMB0335 – 1305PEK 332 13FEB13/15FEB13
UL1898 CMB1540 – 0110+1PEK 332 13FEB13/15FEB13

UL1899 PEK0435 – 1010CMB 332 09FEB13/11FEB13
UL1889 PEK1430 – 2005CMB 343 08FEB13/10FEB13

Colombo – Guangzhou

UL1882 CMB0845 – 1645CAN 343 15FEB13/17FEB13
UL1883 CAN1755 – 2115CMB 343 10FEB13/12FEB13

Colombo – Shanghai

UL1886 CMB0325 – 1230PVG 343 16FEB13
UL1887 PVG1355 – 1855CMB 343 09FEB13/11FEB13

http://airlineroute.net/2012/12/27/ul-cny13/

Sri Lankan Airlines to commence flghts to Bhubaneswar, the capital of the Indian state of Orissa

International flights should start operation by March 2013, Biju Patnaik airport director Sharad Kumar told TOI on Monday. The airport is planning to commission the state-of-the-art new domestic terminal in January. Thereafter the airport authorities will modify interiors of the old terminal to convert it into international terminal. The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will create space for security check, excise and customs clearance, besides duty free shops. Sri Lankan Airlines, Thai Airways and Gulf Air are likely to operate flights from Bhubaneswar to Colombo, Bangkok and Dubai



I don't know how accurate this article is, but I'm sure a lot of people will find this hard to believe.

@SSCMK and Uthum - Is there even a demand between Bhubaneswar and Colombo ?

Traffic stats : http://www.aai.aero/traffic_news/oct2k12annex3.pdf

A really potential airport that was denied International activity so many years.

Except PEK, most of these nonstop services are to be operated with existing China flights on Round Robin Route e.g. CMB-PEK-BKK-CMB, CMB-BKK-
CAN-CMB...

@ Sakith - Why UL has downgraded the PVG and PEK flights from Daily to 5 Weekly ? Do they plans to restore that daily frequency ?

@ Azamh - Any news when UL starts on schedule nonstop services to Hong Kong / China ?

BTW SSCMK, any idea how MJ and SG doing in IXM?

As per Amadeus display 1-JAN-2013, Riyadh flights will be five weekly in Summer 2013.