{"id":129124,"date":"2022-10-10T15:12:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=129124"},"modified":"2022-10-10T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T22:12:05","slug":"sri-lankas-newest-airline-fitsair-flies-to-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/10\/10\/sri-lankas-newest-airline-fitsair-flies-to-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s Newest Airline FitsAir Flies to Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Travel Radar<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, Sri Lanka\u2019s newest airline took to the skies on its inaugural international flight to Dubai. FitsAir, formerly known as\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/fitsair-sri-lanka-airline-startup\/\" target=\"_blank\">ExpoAir<\/a>, is Sri Lanka\u2019s first and only private airline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passengers flying with FitsAir will now be able to board a flight to one of the world\u2019s most cosmopolitan cities from Sri Lanka\u2019s main airport, Colombo\u2019s Bandaranaike International Airport. The inaugural flight, as documented above by the airline itself, happened on October 5th and will continue to operate at a frequency of three times a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline begins operations in the midst of an economical crisis in Sri Lanka. With a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/travelradar.aero\/fuel-crisis-leaves-200-sri-lanka-flights-stuck-in-stopover\/\">lack of fuel currently affecting the nation<\/a>, the timing of Fitsair\u2019s appearance in the aviation industry would seem to be one of misfortune. However, the airline is surprisingly optimistic about its future as it prepares to create a small hub in Jaffna Airport, located in northern Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fight for the Skies: Sri Lanka\u2019s Newest Airline in Competition With Struggling Sri Lankan Airlines<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Although only having a few days as an active airline, talks of competition between FitsAir and Sri Lankan Airlines are already in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things haven\u2019t been looking too good for Sri Lanka\u2019s flag carrier as in the past it has been forced to cut down on several routes due to the effects of the pandemic, and the current state of Sri Lanka\u2019s economy led to the government partially selling the airline. This, along with a new, low-cost airline, could potentially lead to Sri Lankan Airlines\u2019 fall from grace as FitsAir swoops into the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of now, FitsAir is flying with six aircraft in its fleet, but with plans to continue its flight expansion with more routes to more airports, it\u2019s safe to say that the skies are looking clear for this promising airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Travel Radar Earlier this week, Sri Lanka\u2019s newest airline took to the skies on its inaugural international flight to Dubai. FitsAir, formerly known as\u00a0ExpoAir, is Sri Lanka\u2019s first and only private airline. Passengers flying with FitsAir will now be able to board a flight to one of the world\u2019s most cosmopolitan cities from Sri [&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-129124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129124","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=129124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}