{"id":130187,"date":"2022-11-25T16:32:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T23:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=130187"},"modified":"2022-11-25T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T23:32:46","slug":"sri-lanka-based-fitsair-eyes-services-to-key-south-indian-cities-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/11\/25\/sri-lanka-based-fitsair-eyes-services-to-key-south-indian-cities-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka-based FitsAir eyes services to key south Indian cities next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Hindu<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>FitsAir \u2014 a Sri Lankan based private airline \u2014 is looking at possibilities to operate services from Colombo to key destinations in south India by the end of 2023, the airlines vice-president (Passenger) Peter Murray Hill said here on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline has narrowed down on five destinations &#8211; Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Coimbatore, Kochi and Madurai to expand its operations in south India next year, Mr. Peter Hill told reporters here.&nbsp; Mr. Peter Hill was in Tiruchi to announce the launch of the airline\u2019s direct flight services from Colombo to Tiruchi and back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FitsAir had chosen Tiruchi in south India to launch its direct flight services on the Colombo &#8211; Tiruchi &#8211; Colombo sector from December 8 onwards, he said. We chose Tiruchi because there is a good patronage from the city to Sri Lanka\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline will operate the services on the Colombo &#8211; Tiruchi &#8211; Colombo sector on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays to begin with and explore the possibility of making it a daily service depending on the patronage, Mr. Hill said.&nbsp; The airline also has plans to start services from Tiruchi to Jaffna and on the Chennai &#8211; Jaffna sector next year using ATR &#8211; 72 aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Peter&nbsp;Hill said FitsAir, which had&nbsp;for long&nbsp;been in&nbsp;cargo operations, decided a year ago to venture into the passenger market. The airline was presently operating overseas services on the Colombo &#8211; Dubai and Colombo &#8211; Male sectors three times a week.&nbsp; The airline also has plans to launch services from Colombo to overseas destinations in the Far East in the next 18 months, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Hindu FitsAir \u2014 a Sri Lankan based private airline \u2014 is looking at possibilities to operate services from Colombo to key destinations in south India by the end of 2023, the airlines vice-president (Passenger) Peter Murray Hill said here on Friday. The airline has narrowed down on five destinations &#8211; Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Coimbatore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130187","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=130187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}