{"id":125941,"date":"2022-06-04T15:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T22:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125941"},"modified":"2022-06-04T15:23:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T22:23:11","slug":"aeroflot-suspends-flights-to-sri-lanka-over-aircrafts-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/06\/04\/aeroflot-suspends-flights-to-sri-lanka-over-aircrafts-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Aeroflot suspends flights to Sri Lanka over aircraft\u2019s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Aeroflot has suspended commercial flights to Colombo (Sri Lanka).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision was prompted by &#8220;the unfavorable situation as regards guarantees of unobstructed flights of the airline&#8217;s aircraft to Sri Lanka,&#8221; Aeroflot said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline suspended the sale of tickets to Colombo as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As reported earlier, an Aeroflot Airbus A330 arrived in Colombo on Thursday morning and was supposed to return to Moscow the same day. However, the departure was postponed until Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, the aircraft again was unable to fly out to Russia. Local media reported that a commercial court in Colombo had banned the Russian aircraft from leaving the country until at least June 16. The complaint had been filed by Ireland&#8217;s Celestial Aviation Trading Limited, which is affiliated with the lessor GECAS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Aeroflot has suspended commercial flights to Colombo (Sri Lanka). The decision was prompted by &#8220;the unfavorable situation as regards guarantees of unobstructed flights of the airline&#8217;s aircraft to Sri Lanka,&#8221; Aeroflot said in a statement. The airline suspended the sale of tickets to Colombo as well. As reported earlier, an Aeroflot [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125941","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=125941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}