All passenger arrivals into Sri Lanka have been suspended from the May 21 -31 May, the Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka (CAASL) announced today.
Accordingly, the passenger arrivals at Katunayake and Mattala airports will be suspended from May 21 midnight.
However, aircraft departures from the Katunayke and Mattala airports will continue. The two airports will be open for emergency diversions, freight operations and humanitarian flights, technical landings, inbound ferry flights (without passengers) and passengers transiting for less than 12 hrs with a confirmed ticket for an onward destinations, the CAASL said.
The moves come as the number of positive cases and deaths have been rising over the past few days.
The Committee on High Posts has approved the nomination of Former Air Force Commander Air Chief Marshal (Retd.)
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
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