SriLankan Airlines is adding more capacity to key destinations in India with flights to Chennai increasing to four frequencies a day, from December 23 bringing the city’s total frequencies to 28 a week.
The airline said it operates its A 320 and A 330 airbus fleet on this sector and caters to a mix of passengers from, leisure travellers to business travellers and students from Colombo, to through traffic (connecting passengers) from the Far East and Europe.
SriLankan Airline’s Chief Marketing Officer, G.T.Jeyaseelan said: “We are developing Colombo into a hub for the South Asian Region and it is vitally important that we provide the best service for our connecting passengers to south India and other parts of India.
While we are planning to expand our operations into India with more destinations, we are also consolidating our presence in the sub-continent, with enhanced frequencies.”
The four daily frequencies to Chennai is the airline’s highest frequency to any destination, except Male, to which the airline operates an average of six frequencies a day. Some of these flights are direct operations from Europe and Tokyo and connect to Colombo via Male.
The departures from Colombo to Chennai are scheduled in the morning and at night, to cater to the varying demands of passengers who use Colombo as a hub to connect to the sub-continent, the airline said.
In addition to strengthening the airline’s presence in Chennai, SriLankan Airlines is also increasing its services to Karachi, to a daily frequency from December 23. SriLankan also has plans to operate direct flights to Kathmandu and Dhaka next year. |
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