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SriLankan Airlines
has become the first foreign airline to operate one hundred flights per week to India.
Sri Lanka's national carrier reached the important milestone when it added another weekly flight to its existing services to
Trichy.
Peter Hill, CEO of SriLankan,
said, "SriLankan Airlines is extremely proud to be the first foreign carrier in history to fly one hundred times a
week to India. We recognised very early the important role that India plays in this part of the world, and we have been steadily increasing the
number of flights, and the cities that we serve."
Coimbatore became SriLankan's 11th destination in India on 22nd October 2007. The airline operates two flights a day to Chennai and
Mumbai, and daily or more frequent flights to New Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Trichy, Trivandrum, Kochi, and Calicut. There are four
flights to Coimbatore, and three to Goa.
SriLankan carried 1.1 million passengers to and from India in the 2006/07 financial year, which accounted for 35% of the airline's global
traffic. The airline works actively to bring tourists into India, promoting the country's many tourism
sites and has formal partnerships with
many tourism authorities such as the Kerala Department of Tourism.
Senaka Fernando, Regional Manager Indian Subcontinent & Maldives,
said, "SriLankan is making a conscious effort to serve smaller cities
in India, where travellers do not have access to international air travel as most other airlines are intent on serving the large cities."
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