Mihin Lanka takes off

Colombo: The ‘Mihin Lanka’ Airlines commenced its long-awaited air operations when it flew from the Colombo Katunayake International Airport to Bodhgaya in India last Tuesday morning, carrying around 165 passengers.
The A320 type aircraft which left Katunayake in the morning, landed at the Bodhgaya Airport around noon. It returned to Colombo the same evening.
The fully government-owned, limited liability company ‘Mihin Lanka’ Airlines had been a concept and the brainchild of President Mahinda Rajapaksa keeping in line with his ‘Mahinda Chintanaya’, to provide an indigenous, budget airline for the benefit of those Sri Lankans yearning to go on pilgrimage to Bodhgaya, a site considered to be one of the most sacred and holiest locations for Buddhists.
The budget airline will be of special benefit and advantage also to the Sri Lankan expatriate community working in the Middle-East.
29/03/07 Columbo Daily News, Sri Lanka

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Categories: Foreign Mar 2007, New Mar 2007