Srilankan Airlines Adds Three More Flights To Southern India

SriLankan Airlines is to further strengthen its presence in Southern India with the launch of services to three more cities: Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam and Coimbatore from July 2017.

Currently SriLankan Airlinesoperates 108 flights per week to Chennai, Trichy, Trivandrum, Mumbai, New Delhi, Gaya, Madurai, Varanasi, Kochi, Bangalore and Kolkata, making it the largest foreign carrier into India. Coimbatore will be SriLankan’s fourth major destination in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, where it already serves Chennai, Madurai and Trichy.

SriLankan Airlines’ Chief Commercial Officer Siva Ramachandran stated that “We are leveraging our vast network in India to offer travelers to and from India increased opportunities to connect to our destinations throughout the Middle East, the Far East and the Indian Ocean region”.

“The new routes would allow more Indian travelers to enjoy the experience of Sri Lanka’s many tourist attractions” he further added.
India is the largest tourism market to Sri Lanka.