{"id":81191,"date":"2018-09-20T13:15:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=81191"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:15:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T20:15:09","slug":"srilankan-airlines-to-deploy-a330-to-melbourne-singapore-suspend-hong-kong-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/09\/20\/srilankan-airlines-to-deploy-a330-to-melbourne-singapore-suspend-hong-kong-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"SriLankan Airlines to deploy A330 to Melbourne, Singapore; suspend Hong Kong operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SriLankan Airlines<\/strong>\u00a0stated (19-Sep-2018) it plans to make progressive changes\u201d to its winter 2018\/2019 schedule. As part of the changes, the carrier plans to deploy A330-300 aircraft on daily Colombo-Melbourne service from 28-Oct-2018 with plans to increase Colombo-<strong>Singapore<\/strong>\u00a0capacity from 29-Oct-2018 with the deployment of A330 aircraft on the route. Frequency will also be increased from 17 to 21 times weekly, of which seven weekly services will operate with A330-300 and 14 weekly A320\/A321neo aircraft, for a total of over 2400 additional seats per week. The carrier will also suspend operations to\u00a0<strong>Hong Kong<\/strong>\u00a0from 27-Oct-2018 amid careful assessment of commercial results over a significant period of time\u201d. The carrier further noted: The airline will continue to evaluate future opportunities in the Hong Kong region, as it does with all its markets\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SriLankan Airlines\u00a0stated (19-Sep-2018) it plans to make progressive changes\u201d to its winter 2018\/2019 schedule. As part of the changes, the carrier plans to deploy A330-300 aircraft on daily Colombo-Melbourne service from 28-Oct-2018 with plans to increase Colombo-Singapore\u00a0capacity from 29-Oct-2018 with the deployment of A330 aircraft on the route. Frequency will also be increased from 17 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81191","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=81191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}