With SriLankan Airlines management also part of the budget carrier Mihin Lanka, route planning has become better coordinated, a top official said. Nishantha Wickremesinghe, Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, told the Business Times that they carry out route planning between the two carriers together in order to avoid both flying to the same destination. He noted that Mihin Lanka would be flying to more low cost destinations and in this respect had selected to touchdown at Jakarta, Dhaka, Buddhagaya, Varnasi, Manila and Sharjah.

The budget carrier that was previously operating to Kuwait would be pulling out of this route in a bid to allow SriLankan Airlines to fly in and as a result its shift to Sharjah. Coordination of routes is also carried out whereby Mihin Lanka would fly into Manila that would carry passengers heading for the Middle East via Colombo. And once in Colombo, these passengers would be transported to their destinations on SriLankan Airlines, he explained.

In future, SriLankan Airlines would seek to operate increased flights that would ensure that by the end of next year the airline would operate daily flights to all its destinations. Aircraft would also be increased at SriLankan Airlines from the current 22 to 30 in the future that would eventually result in a young fleet replacing the old stock by 2015, Mr. Wickremesinghe said.

http://sundaytimes.lk/120219/BusinessTimes/bt26.html

SriLankan Airlines Summer 2012 Flight Schedule has now been loaded on the airline website for Reservation and Flight Information. Highlights of the Summer 2012 UL Route Network : -

- UL Flights between Male' and London, Tokyo and Zurich have been cancelled;
- Tokyo flights are increased from four to five flights a week;
- Beijing flights are increased from 4 to Daily, Shanghai flights are increased from 5 to Daily;
- Terminator flights are operating on Dubai and Kuwait;
- Kochi flights are increased from 7 weekly to double daily;
- Riyadh flights are increased from 2 to 5 weekly, Jeddah flights are increased from 2 to 3 weekly;
- Bahrain flights are increased from 3 to 5 weekly;
- London flights frequency is reduced from 13 weekly to 7 weekly;
- Milano will remain as UL's destination in S12.

Click - Flight Schedule

Please comment ...

Add ISB to the mix.. Though I cannot see any flights from KHI

2nd A380-800 from EK landed in CMB... any news what happened this time?

it was the same route AKL - SYD - DXB.. this time A6-EDM

My mistake, no flights to Karachi by PIA.
here is the schedule of 2 weekly Lahore-Colombo flight,

PK874 LHE0001 – 0445CMB 310 37
PK875 CMB0600 – 0945ISB 310 37

http://airlineroute.net/2012/02/20/pk-cmb-s12/

According to OAG , Mihin Lanka starts nonstop flights to Manila from Colombo , starting 23 rd February 2012. Flightstats says that this route to be operated on board A330 aircraft. So When did Mihin Lanka took delivery of A330 ? or Is this A330 leased from SriLankan as per this news - (http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/12/08/bus04.asp). Can anyone shed any light on this?

Colombo-Manila Flight Schedule

07:35 - 16:05 > 17:15 - 20:40 - MJ804/5 - A330 - Days of Ops : Tue.Thu - CMB-MNL-CMB (effec 23 Feb 2012)

According to OAG , Mihin Lanka starts nonstop flights to Manila from Colombo , starting 23 rd February 2012. Flightstats says that this route to be operated on board A330 aircraft. So When did Mihin Lanka took delivery of A330 ? or Is this A330 leased from SriLankan as per this news - (http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/12/08/bus04.asp). Can anyone shed any light on this?

Colombo-Manila Flight Schedule

07:35 - 16:05 > 17:15 - 20:40 - MJ804/5 - A330 - Days of Ops : Tue.Thu - CMB-MNL-CMB (effec 23 Feb 2012)