Sri Lankan Airlines gets closer to Indian century
20 Mar 2007
Colombo: With the announcement that it is adding a third weekly flight to the Indian coastal resort of Goa, Sri Lankan Airlines is inching closer to becoming the first scheduled foreign airline to operate a hundred flights a week to the country.
The airline's third flight to Goa will be on Fridays, adding to the current flights on Mondays and Saturdays.
According to the airline, as a foreign carrier it already has the most frequencies to the country. With the addition of 7 more flights to Mumbai last month, as well as the new Goa flight, scheduled for March 30, Sri Lankan operates 95 flights to 10 cities in India.
The airline has 15 weekly flights to Chennai, twice daily to Mumbai, 13 to Trivandrum, 11 to Kochi, 10 to Trichy, 8 to Calicut, and daily to New Delhi, Hyderabad, and Bangalore.
The airline says it offers rapid connections to Goa from Colombo for flights from Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and Southeast Asia.
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