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SriLankan Airlines Increases Flights to Thailand
SriLankan Airlines is bucking the trend and adding flights to its Bangkok-Colombo route. Citing steadily increasing passenger numbers year on year, the carrier is banking on the continued growth of regional travel.
While nearly every other airline in the region is cutting back its services due to high fuel costs and sluggish air traffic, SriLankan Airlines announced it will increase flights on its Bangkok-Colombo route from seven to 10 flights per week. This adds up to an additional 900 seats per week.
Amitabh Anthonypillai, SriLankan Airlines manager for Thailand, commented “'it's a totally out-of-the-box view if you look at it, but if you take the travel trends into Thailand and top it up with the Tourism Authority of Thailand's ongoing efforts in promoting the kingdom, you could see that it makes so much more sense [to increase flights].”
Passenger numbers have risen steadily each year since 2006 as Colombo has emerged as a popular hub for continuing travel to Europe and the Middle East. More than 50 per cent of the Bangkok-Colombo passengers continue on beyond Sri Lanka. From Colombo, the carrier operates around 100 weekly flights to India, the Middle East, London, Paris and Frankfurt.
Posted by: Andrew on 04 Aug 2008, 10:02