{"id":125939,"date":"2022-06-04T15:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T22:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125939"},"modified":"2022-06-04T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T22:20:40","slug":"russias-aeroflot-suspends-commercial-flights-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/06\/04\/russias-aeroflot-suspends-commercial-flights-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s Aeroflot suspends commercial flights to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Russia\u2019s flagship carrier announced that it is suspending commercial flights to Sri Lanka after the island nation\u2019s authorities detained the airline\u2019s Airbus A330 jet on June 02.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aeroflot is suspending commercial flights to Colombo (Sri Lanka) for the immediate period due to an unreliable situation in terms of the airline\u2019s unobstructed flights to Sri Lanka. The sales of tickets for flights to Colombo have been temporarily shut down,\u201d Russian state-owned news agency TASS said quoting the airline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russian Foreign Ministry summons Sri Lankan envoy over detained plane (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CYcmJNgAAV0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In its statement, Aeroflot has said its passengers located in Colombo with return tickets for the 2nd, 4th and 5th of June will be brought to Russia on the 4th and 5th of June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Repatriation planes will fly to Colombo without passengers, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passengers with tickets to Moscow for later dates will also be brought to Russia as scheduled, the airline assured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday (June 03), Aeroflot reported that the departure of its SU-289 flight from Colombo to Moscow scheduled for June 2 was at first delayed and then cancelled due to the absence of permit from Sri Lanka\u2019s aviation authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Colombo\u2019s Commercial High Court satisfied a complaint filed by Ireland\u2019s Celestial Aviation Trading Limited leasing company against Aeroflot and banned its Airbus A330 jet from leaving the country until June 16. A court hearing to lift the seizure of the aircraft is scheduled for June 8, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><em>-with inputs from agencies&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Russia\u2019s flagship carrier announced that it is suspending commercial flights to Sri Lanka after the island nation\u2019s authorities detained the airline\u2019s Airbus A330 jet on June 02. Aeroflot is suspending commercial flights to Colombo (Sri Lanka) for the immediate period due to an unreliable situation in terms of the airline\u2019s unobstructed flights to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125939","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=125939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}