{"id":84410,"date":"2018-12-26T15:51:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T22:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=84410"},"modified":"2018-12-26T15:51:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T22:51:25","slug":"srilankan-carrier-worlds-leading-airline-to-the-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/12\/26\/srilankan-carrier-worlds-leading-airline-to-the-indian-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"SriLankan carrier \u2018World\u2019s Leading Airline to the Indian Ocean\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Gulf Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Colombo: SriLankan Airlines, the National Carrier of Sri Lanka and a member of the oneworld alliance, won the prestigious \u2018World\u2019s Leading Airline to the Indian Ocean\u2019 title once again at the Grand Final Gala Ceremony of World Travel Awards, in Lisbon, Portugal recently.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulating SriLankan Airlines, World Travel Awards Founder, Graham Cooke said: SriLankan Airlines has demonstrated a relentless drive to improve its services and I am delighted that it has been acknowledged by both the travel trade and the public by being voted \u2018World\u2019s Leading Airline to the Indian Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SriLankan Airlines\u2019 Senior Manager Marketing, Saminda Perera said This award highlights our efforts to establish a consolidated presence in the Indian Ocean region. Our expansion efforts have been consistent and in line with the market demands. Whilst increasing frequencies to popular destinations based on passenger demands, we have constantly endeavored to upgrade our product in order to provide an unmatchable travel experience. Our global connectivity across key regions has invariably made us a choice of travel to and from the Indian Subcontinent via our Colombo hub.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Award proves SriLankan\u2019s presence in the South Asian region, strongly supported by its connectivity of 119 flights a week to 13 Indian cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Gulf Today Colombo: SriLankan Airlines, the National Carrier of Sri Lanka and a member of the oneworld alliance, won the prestigious \u2018World\u2019s Leading Airline to the Indian Ocean\u2019 title once again at the Grand Final Gala Ceremony of World Travel Awards, in Lisbon, Portugal recently. Congratulating SriLankan Airlines, World Travel Awards Founder, Graham [&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-84410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84410","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=84410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}