{"id":126832,"date":"2022-07-11T16:25:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T23:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=126832"},"modified":"2022-07-11T16:25:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T23:25:38","slug":"uaes-flydubai-suspends-operations-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/07\/11\/uaes-flydubai-suspends-operations-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE\u2019s flydubai suspends operations to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>United Arab Emirates carrier flydubai has suspended operations to Colombo in Sri Lanka until further notice, a spokesperson for the budget airline said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We will continue to closely monitor the situation on the ground in Sri Lanka. Passengers who have booked to travel on these flights will be contacted and offered a refund,&#8221; the spokesperson told Reuters by email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abu Dhabi&#8217;s Etihad Airways did not follow suit, but said that some of its services from Colombo would stop at India&#8217;s Cochin International Airport to refuel before continuing onwards to Abu Dhabi starting from July 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Etihad continues to closely monitor the situation in Sri Lanka,&#8221; a spokesperson for the airline said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka&#8217;s president and the cabinet will resign to make way for a unity government, the prime minister&#8217;s office said on Monday, after tens of thousands of people stormed the official residences of both men, enraged by the island&#8217;s worst economic crisis in decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror United Arab Emirates carrier flydubai has suspended operations to Colombo in Sri Lanka until further notice, a spokesperson for the budget airline said on Monday. &#8220;We will continue to closely monitor the situation on the ground in Sri Lanka. Passengers who have booked to travel on these flights will be contacted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126832","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=126832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}