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SriLankan Airlines will launch flights to Bodh Gaya in India and resume
flights to Frankfurt in Germany, among other schedule enhancements, in the
Winter 2002 season.
The Airbus A320 will be deployed to Bodh Gaya every Tuesday afternoon,
beginning November 12. This raises SriLankan's destinations in India to seven,
the other six being New Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Trichy and
Trivandrum.
The standard time for daily morning flights to Chennai will continue: at
0805 hours.
New Delhi will also be served six times a week, i.e. everyday except
Saturday. On Tuesday, the flight will operate via Bodh Gaya to Delhi. The
other flights fly non-stop to Delhi.
Mumbai will also have an additional flight on Tuesday. The other flights
operate on Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
Flights to Frankfurt will begin on December 4, 2002. The flight on Wednesday
(A340) will fly via Zurich, while the flight on Friday (A330) will fly non-stop to
Frankfurt.
Zurich which has four flights each week at present will have five flights in
the Winter schedule. These will operate on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday
and Sunday.
From December 3, there will be nine flights each week to London. The morning
flights from Heathrow will have a common departure time of 1025 hours while
the evening flights will have a common departure time of 2125 hours.
There will be daily flights to Singapore, eight frequencies a week. This is
an enhancement since although there are eight frequencies at present, there
is no flight on Thursday.
"The prospects for peace have turned the economic climate in Sri Lanka for
the better," says SriLankan's CEO Peter Hill." This has made it possible for
us to start growing our business again. We are happy to offer these flight
enhancements to our customers who can look forward to more in the future."
The air travel winter season begins in the last week of October and ends in
the last week of March.
With the addition of Bodh Gaya, SriLankan's route network increases to 30
destinations in 20 countries.
* Passengers from Australia can transfer to daily SriLankan Airlines flights
from Singapore to Colombo. |
