{"id":116724,"date":"2021-08-03T15:33:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T22:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116724"},"modified":"2021-08-03T15:33:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T22:33:17","slug":"aeroflot-will-operate-flights-to-sri-lanka-from-september-2-opens-ticket-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/03\/aeroflot-will-operate-flights-to-sri-lanka-from-september-2-opens-ticket-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeroflot will operate flights to Sri Lanka from September 2, opens ticket sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy TASS<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Russian citizens can enter the territory of Sri Lanka, having previously issued an electronic visa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, August 3. \/TASS\/. Aeroflot has opened the sale of tickets for direct flights on the Moscow-Colombo (Sri Lanka) route, the flights will be operated from September 2 twice a week, the airline said in a statement on Tuesday. At the moment, air traffic between Sri Lanka and Russia has been resumed after a break amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flights will be operated on wide-body Airbus A330-300 aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian citizens can enter the territory of Sri Lanka, having previously issued an electronic visa, Aeroflot noted. Travel will require a negative test for COVID-19 in English, taken no earlier than 72 hours before departure. A repeated test must be passed upon arrival at the destination airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy TASS Russian citizens can enter the territory of Sri Lanka, having previously issued an electronic visa MOSCOW, August 3. \/TASS\/. Aeroflot has opened the sale of tickets for direct flights on the Moscow-Colombo (Sri Lanka) route, the flights will be operated from September 2 twice a week, the airline said in a statement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}