More flights to India for World Cup
Posted by Editor on March 31, 2011 - 8:44 am
SriLankan Airlines will add more flights to India for cricket fans planning to fly to India for the Cricket World Cup final match on Saturday, Civil Aviation Minister Priyankara Jayaratne said.
SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka operate several flights to India daily. In addition to these flights, more flights will be arranged by SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka to Mumbai where the World Cup final match will be played. The new flight schedule will come to effect from today. The Minister said that two 150 seater aircraft are operated to Mumbai daily. These two flights will be replaced by two larger aircraft which have more seating capacity to cater to the increasing air-travel demand to India.
Courtesy: Daily News
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