Flydubai has confirmed it doubles its daily flights to Sri Lanka from this summer, bringing a total number of weekly flights to 14. The announcement comes a week after the carrier attended the inaugural ceremony for Mattala Rajapaksha International Airport which is also known as Hambantota Airport. With the announcement of a three times a week service, Sri Lanka’s second international gateway will be served with daily services starting from 03rd June 2013 in addition to daily flights to Colombo.
On this occasion flydubai chief commercial officer, Hamad Obaidalla, who headed the delegation to the newly inaugural airport said, The additional flights to Sri Lanka are in direct response to a strong passenger demand across the network and contribute to the successful development in the trade and tourism sector in eastern and southern part of the island and these new flights bring new opportunities to Sri Lanka and United Arab Emirates.
flydubi has the most comprehensive network to CIS and CEE of any other Middle Eastern carrier which connects Colombo, and once in operation Hambantota , to 21 destinations in ten countries. The network has witnessed a milestone expansion with the carrier recently announcing it is to double its Russian and Ukrainian network by adding four destinations in Russia, two in Ukraine and increasing the frequency to Kiev to double daily.
With these new routes, the carrier’s network further expands to more than 60 destinations across the Middle East, Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Asia, CEE and CIS.
On this occasion flydubai chief commercial officer, Hamad Obaidalla, who headed the delegation to the newly inaugural airport said, The additional flights to Sri Lanka are in direct response to a strong passenger demand across the network and contribute to the successful development in the trade and tourism sector in eastern and southern part of the island and these new flights bring new opportunities to Sri Lanka and United Arab Emirates.
flydubi has the most comprehensive network to CIS and CEE of any other Middle Eastern carrier which connects Colombo, and once in operation Hambantota , to 21 destinations in ten countries. The network has witnessed a milestone expansion with the carrier recently announcing it is to double its Russian and Ukrainian network by adding four destinations in Russia, two in Ukraine and increasing the frequency to Kiev to double daily.
With these new routes, the carrier’s network further expands to more than 60 destinations across the Middle East, Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, Asia, CEE and CIS.
