SriLankan Airlines to suspend flights to Calicut, Kochi, Coimbatore and Hyderabad

Mumbai: SriLankan Airlines’ flight schedule is undergoing several temporary changes and so the Airline is temporarily suspending services to four of its less popular destinations - Calicut, Kochi, Coimbatore and Hyderabad from January15, 2009 until the end of the winter season. According to a TravelDaily News report, the Airline is introducing new aircraft and retiring four older ones in its narrow-body fleet. Two new Airbus A320 aircraft have already been acquired, the first of which arrived on November 30 this year and the second is due to arrive within this month. Two more are being actively sourced, until then services to Calicut, Kochi, Coimbatore and Hyderabad have been stalled temporarily.
SriLankan Airlines will continue to serve all of the other destinations in its route network. In India, the airline continues to serve major destinations including its political capital New Delhi, commercial capital Mumbai and IT capital Bangalore. It will also maintain a major presence in Tamil Nadu, the state with closest links to Sri Lanka, through its 15 flights a week to Chennai, and daily flights to Trichy. All Southeast Asian and Far East destinations will remain unchanged.
19/12/08 TravelBizMonitor

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