Sri Lankan Airlines a huge success in India

With 10,000 seats in 95 weekly flights from 10 different airports in India, Sri Lankan Airlines is currently the leading foreign airlines operating to and from India. In a chat with newsmen at Thiruvananthapuram, Asha Subramonian, sales manager of the airlines, said that the airlines is the only foreign carrier that operates from all the three international airports in Kerala. Currently, it operates 13 flights to Thiruvananthapuram, 11 to Kochi and eight to Kozhikode in a week. Regarding the pricing of tickets, the Airlines puts up a stiff competition to other foreign airlines operating in India and has an average load factor of around 80 percent from Kerala.

"The market here is growing and despite several other airlines, we do have good business and our recently launched bi-weekly flights to Jeddah has been a huge success," said the sales manager. From the new fiscal (2007-08), the airlines would incorporate the fuel surcharge into the airfare. "This will enable clarity of airfares. Hitherto the fuel surcharge was quoted separately to passengers," added Subramonian. And for promotion of Kerala as a tourist destination, the airlines has special packages and in the current tourist season they have already brought in around 700 tourists from France and 300 more are expected before the tourist season winds up in the state shortly.

Courtesy: IANS

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