Budget Carrier Spice Jet plans to start CMB-BOM route starting from May too.

Some more from current investigation...



Brave of her to come forward - Pradeepa is obviously being protected by Corrupt Politicians.

Instead of sending an A330 to Mubai how about some house cleaning?

Pradeepa may not be HHR anymore but he's still in the company.

I hope everyone on this forum in Sri Lanka are safe and well, and that your families and friends are safe too.

Stay strong.

Air India puts off launch of Mumbai-Colombo flight

Air India has deferred the launch of its Mumbai-Colombo-Mumbai flight after the serial bomb blasts in the Sri Lankan capital on Sunday. The five-times a week non-stop flight was to be launched on May 1 using an Airbus aircraft.

In a communication to travel agents sent out on Wednesday, the state-owned airline said that in view of disruptions at Colombo, AI 275/276 Mumbai-Colombo Mumbai flight “stands cancelled” between May 1 and May 31. Over 350 people of various nationalities, including Indians, were killed in the blasts.

The airline’s daily connection between Delhi and Colombo continues to operate and on Thursday it was about 90 minutes late in leaving Delhi.
Sources in SpiceJet said that they will continue to operate their flights from Madurai and Chennai to Colombo adding that passenger load on these flights was doing okay. They declined to say how many passengers were travelling to Colombo.



Dutch to fly tourists home from Sri Lanka within days


AFP - Hundreds of Dutch tourists will be flown home in the coming days from Sri Lanka in the wake of the Easter bombings, according to the guarantee scheme governing Dutch tour operators.

Following the attacks, which killed 253 people, around 500 Dutch visitors who remain in Sri Lanka will be flown home "within days," the director of the Calamiteitenfonds group said Friday.

"We are currently in consultations with affiliated organisations," said Erik Jan Reuvere, whose fund acts as insurer and coordinator for tour operators in times of crisis.

"We estimate between 400 and 500 people are travelling in Sri Lanka under our guarantee," Reuvere told AFP. He said they would be flown home either on scheduled flights or a "probable" charter operated by the TUI group on Monday.

The repatriation comes after the Dutch foreign ministry late Thursday recommended only essential trips be made to the island, citing the potential danger of further attacks by fugitive terrorists.

The ministry warned the security situation on the island remained "unpredictable and uncertain".



UK travellers warned against Sri Lanka travel – your cancellation rights

Sri Lanka is currently facing a state of emergency and a nationwide curfew following Sunday's terror attacks, and the UK Government is now advising against all but essential travel there. If you're in the country now or due to travel there shortly, here's what you need to know.

Sri Lanka was hit by a series of devastating terror attacks last Sunday, including bomb blasts at three churches and three hotels. More than 250 people are now thought to have died, including a number of tourists.

As of Thursday (25 April), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is now advising against all but essential travel to Sri Lanka – see its latest Sri Lanka travel advice.

We've specific help for travellers to Sri Lanka below, but also see our Holiday Rights guide for more info.

SriLankan Airlines appoints new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO)

Mr. Joshua Bustos has been appointed as the new Chief Commercial Officer – CCO of SriLankan Airlines with effect from 23 April 2019.
He is an internationally experienced senior level airline executive with over 20 years’ experience helping both low cost carriers and legacy airlines identify, expand and increase revenue.

He was extending his services to Safi Airways as the CEO before being welcomed into the SriLankan Airlines. He also held key positions in leading organizations including American Airlines, Spirit Airlines, South African Airways and Sabre Airline Solutions. He was on the network sounding board and revenue management advisory board at Star Alliance during his tenure with South African Airways.

Is there any anticipated direct flights between CMB and MED madinah, Saudi Arabia in the following weeks. I know airlines like SV provide connections from three of there hubs but is there any direct flight by either UL or SV about to be launched atleast for Ramadan. Thanks

Can anyone here update us on why below aircrafts are inactive for quite some days:

A320 - 4R-ABL
A332 - 4R-ALC
A333 - 4R-ALR

Did SriLankan Airlines cancel or reduce the schedule flights due to terrorism?
Any impact on international flights to Colombo?

Korean Air is going to resume freighter flights to Colombo later this year. Korean Air is already flying 3 weekly passenger flights on ICN-CMB-MLE.

From what i was able to piece together as per flightradar24 was that 4R-ALR had an issue when in MEL (flight dated 9 May), once back a day later (11 May) its still AOG

Heard that ABL is getting ETOPS certification, that's why it's not flying.

Have they extend the lease agreement of ABL? I thought it's due to leave the fleet next year.

China Southern is downgrading the frequency of Colombo flights from 3 to 1 weekly and Air India is postponing the Mumbai-Colombo launch to July. Shame the terrorist attacks have really affected the Sri Lanka Aviation. Any chance KLM & LOT are operating Colombo flights in Winter 2019?

Yes indeed.. the authorities needs to wake up and send the msg across the board that SL is back to safe and normal place to visit..

i saw lot of them saying the CMB is almost Mattala now... we need to come back
rise up like the phoenix...
(Lets put the politics aside and work towards the common goal)

KLM Winter schedule remains the same so far for Northern Winter 2019/2020