Sri Lankan Airlines announced changes to its schedule over a three-month period commencing from 06th January 2017 to 06th April 2017, due to the closure of Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport from 0830 hours to 1630 hours each day for maintenance work on the runway.

Accordingly, the flights UL308 Colombo-Singapore and UL 309 Singapore-Colombo, UL127 Colombo-Chennai and UL122 Chennai-Colombo, UL133 Colombo-Trichy and UL132 Trichy-Colombo, UL115 Colombo-Male and UL102 Male-Colombo, UL167 Colombo-Cochin and UL166 Cochin-Colombo, and UL173 Colombo-Bangalore and UL174 Bangalore-Colombo have been cancelled and will continue to serve each of these destinations through its flights at other times of the day.

Meanwhile,  the flights UL868 Colombo-Beijing, UL866 Colombo-Shanghai, UL402 Colombo-Bangkok and UL403 Bangkok-Colombo, UL318 Colombo-Kuala Lumpur and UL319 Kuala Lumpur-Colombo, UL306 Colombo-Singapore and UL307 Singapore-Colombo, UL161 Colombo-Trivandrum and UL162 Trivandrum –Colombo, UL195 Colombo-New Delhi and UL196 New Delhi-Colombo, UL183 Colombo-Karachi and UL184 Karachi-Colombo, UL503 Colombo-London and UL504 London-Colombo (From 05th January UL 504 will operate as London-Male -Colombo), and  UL281 Colombo-Jeddah and UL282 Jeddah-Colombo have been shifted to alternate times of the day.

Passengers who have already booked tickets on any of the above flights should contact their travel agent or the nearest Sri Lankan Airlines ticket office for details on revised times and/or alternative routines.

The closure of BIA affects flights of all airlines that operate to BIA during the scheduled time of maintenance work, and Airlines said that it had no control over the scheduled maintenance works.