{"id":129120,"date":"2022-10-10T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129120"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:00:17","slug":"russian-airline-aeroflot-resumes-flights-to-sri-lanka-after-4-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/10\/russian-airline-aeroflot-resumes-flights-to-sri-lanka-after-4-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian airline Aeroflot resumes flights to Sri Lanka after 4 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A Russian airlines Aeroflot flight arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport this morning (10), resuming flights between Moscow and Colombo after a lapse of 4 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia\u2019s flagship carrier had 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>On 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>This was after the Colombo 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.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, on July 15, the Colombo Commercial High Court dismissed the case filed by an Irish company against Russia\u2019s Aeroflot airline with costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, Aeroflot decided to resume flights from Moscow to Sri Lanka with effect from October 09, 2022.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting from October, Aeroflot will resume regular flights to Colombo, Bangkok, and Goa. Flights will be operated on Airbus A330 aircraft,\u201d the airlines said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From October 09, the airline will resume Colombo flights, which will initially operate twice a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From October 30, Aeroflot will re-launch seven weekly flights to Bangkok, and from November 02, the airline will operate up to three weekly services to Goa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana A Russian airlines Aeroflot flight arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport this morning (10), resuming flights between Moscow and Colombo after a lapse of 4 months. Russia\u2019s flagship carrier had 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129120","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=129120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}