{"id":145382,"date":"2024-10-29T17:19:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T00:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=145382"},"modified":"2024-10-29T17:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T00:19:54","slug":"russias-red-wings-airlines-launches-direct-flights-from-samara-to-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/10\/29\/russias-red-wings-airlines-launches-direct-flights-from-samara-to-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s Red Wings Airlines launches direct flights from Samara to Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Interfax<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>SAMARA. Oct 29 (Interfax) &#8211; Russia&#8217;s Red Wings Airlines launched direct flights between Samara and Mattala, Sri Lanka, on October 29, the press service of Samara&#8217;s Kurumoch Airport said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The flights are scheduled for every 10 days at 8 hours per trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boeing-777s will be the mode of transport for passengers according to the online board of Kurumoch Airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Red Wings is among Russia&#8217;s largest airlines, based at Moscow&#8217;s Zhukovsky and Domodedovo airports, Yekaterinburg&#8217;s Koltsovo Airport, Chelyabinsk&#8217;s Balandino Airport, and Makhachkala Airport. Red Wings has 20 regional Superjet 100 aircraft, three long haul Boeing-777, and two Tu-204\/214 in its fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Airports of Regions Management Company manages JSC Kurumoch International Airport , operating regular flights on over 20 Russian and foreign air carriers to 46 destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport is the third busiest airport in Sri Lanka, and is located 18 km from the city of Hambantota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Interfax SAMARA. Oct 29 (Interfax) &#8211; Russia&#8217;s Red Wings Airlines launched direct flights between Samara and Mattala, Sri Lanka, on October 29, the press service of Samara&#8217;s Kurumoch Airport said. The flights are scheduled for every 10 days at 8 hours per trip. Boeing-777s will be the mode of transport for passengers according to [&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-145382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145382","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=145382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}