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Sri Lankan Airlines to fly to Ahmedabad, Kolkata

Source: PTI
January 25, 2005 16:38 IST
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Sri Lankan Airlines plans to add Ahmedabad and Kolkata to its Indian destinations this year.

While flights to Ahmedabad would be available soon, those to Kolkata would take some more time, the airlines' commercial head, G T Jayaseelan, said.

Presently, the airline operates flights to 10 cities in India. He said the airlines also proposed to increase the number of flights from 68 per week to 70, which would include 15 to Chennai.

The airlines was looking at increasing the number of services to secondary cities like Tiruchirapalli. "We are evaluating the potential. Wherever we see economic feasibility, we will be there", he said.

Despite the effects of the Tsunami, which devastated parts of Sri Lanka, the national carrier recorded a 23 per cent increase in global passenger traffic in the first nine months of 2004-05, he said.

The traffic on the Indian sector jumped by 30 per cent in the first nine months of 2004-05, compared to the same period the previous year, he said, but did not give details.

There was no disruption or change to the flight schedule to any destinations from India on account of the Tsunami, he said, adding that no flights were cancelled or rescheduled.

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