Sri Lankan Airlines gets closer to Indian century

SriLankan Airlines is adding a third weekly flight to the Indian coastal resort of Goa, moving closer to becoming first scheduled foreign airline to have a hundred flights per week to the country, the airline said.
Already the foreign carrier with the most frequencies, SriLankan will have 95 flights to 10 cities in India with the addition of 7 more flights to Mumbai last month and the new Goa flight scheduled for March 30.
SriLankan 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 in Colombo for flights from Europe, the Middle East, Far East and Southeast Asia.
The third flight will be on Fridays, adding to the current flights on Mondays and Saturdays.
Flights, which are of approximately of two hours’ duration, depart Colombo at 0545 and arrive in Goa at 0735. They set out from Goa at 0830 and arrive back in Colombo at 1030.
20/03/07 Lanka Business Online, Sri Lanka

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Categories: Foreign Mar 2007