About Sri Lankan Airlines

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Previously accepted as Air Lanka SriLankan Airlines is the civic carrier of Sri Lanka. SriLankan Airlines were the aboriginal in Asia to fly the Airbus A340 and the aboriginal in South Asia to adjustment the Airbus A330-200. SriLankan Airlines' hub is at Bandaranaike International Airport (CMB) Colombo. SriLankan Airlines has a affiliation with Emirates and is aswell a allotment of the Skywards common flyer programme.

Air Lanka was privatized in the year 1998 afterward the enactment of a affiliation with Emirates Airline and was re-christened as SriLankan Airlines. United Arab Emirates airline holds 40% pale in the new company. Emirates apprenticed to undertake as allotment of its charge to Sri Lankan government the administration of Air Lanka for a 10-year period.

SriLankan Airlines' agile consists of 5 A340-300, and nine A330-200 aircrafts. Its Airlines anon flies to 49 destinations beyond Europe and Asia. In India, it has an all-encompassing arrangement and flies to Delhi, Goa, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kochi, Chennai, Kozhikode, Tiruchirapalli, Mumbai, and Thiruvananthapuram.