SriLankan Engineering converts Airbus A320 passenger aircraft to a cargo freighter for operator FitsAir
SriLankan Engineering, the engineering and maintenance arm of SriLankan Airlines, has entered into a strategic collaboration with UK-based Avensis Aviation to offer Maintenance (MRO)...
SriLankan Airline’s record-breaking upliftment to Maldives
SriLankan Airlines carried a record-breaking 1.2 million kilograms of cargo from its network to Malé, Maldives, in February 2021.
The Maldives is one of the...
SriLankan Airlines calls on Members of Airline Pilots’ Guild to put the Country First
SriLankan Airlines has been supporting the national economy and country since the closure of the Bandaranaike International Airport in March 2020 with the outbreak...
SriLankan Airlines welcomes Indian delegation to Sri Lanka
SriLankan Airlines in a bid to recommence Indian tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka under the proposed bio-bubble tourist arrival concept, successfully completed a familiarization...
CHIEF OF AIR STAFF OF THE PAKISTAN AIR FORCE CALLS ON THE COMMANDER OF...
Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan, Chief of the Air Staff of the Pakistan Air Force called on the Commander of the Air Force,...
Bernard Ziegler – French aeronautical engineer who dismissed pilots as ‘taxi drivers’ when he...
In 1993 Bernard Ziegler flew what was then the longest recorded flight by a civil aircraft when he piloted an Airbus 340-200 around the world...
HISTORY OF CIVIL AVIATION IN SRI LANKA (2002-2011)
Compiled by: Gp Capt Kumar Kirinde, SLAF (Retd)
2002
Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka was established.
Drafting of the Technical Law proceeded. Expo Air leased three Fokker...
SriLankan Airlines offers ‘buy one get one free’ to Moscow
Lankan Airlines has announced a special ‘buy one and get one free’ offer for the Russian holidaymakers to visit Sri Lanka during this summer...
THE ILL-FATED KASHMIR PRINCESS: STORY OF AN AIR INDIA CONSTELLATION THAT CRASHED IN 1955
The year was 1955. Indo China relations were quite warm, the Panschsheel had been signed the previous year. In 1954, Premier Zhou Enlai had...
THOSE SOARING MEMORIES
By: Roger Thiedeman
This article is adapted from the original published in the Sri Lanka Sunday Times on November 23, 1997 (http://www.sundaytimes.lk/971123/plus10.html) under the...
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