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Aerosvit to launch Colombo flights

By
Miyuru Sandaruwan
 on March 26, 2011 1:07 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
      Aerosvit Ukrainian Airlines will be launching flights to Colombo, effective 22 Oct 2011, becoming the second carrier to operate the route in less than an year.
 Aerosvit's flights will operate twice weekly, nonstop between Kiev and Colombo with Boeing 767-300ER aircraft. The airline had only recently announce plans to acquire more 767s.
 Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) began flights to Colombo in last December - operating twice weekly via Abu Dhabi, on a Boeing 737-800. The Colombo route was the first long haul route for UIA and also the first direct link between Ukraine and Sri Lanka.

In red color is the Aerosvit route, in blue colour is the UIA route.

Aerosvit flight schedule
VV175 Kiev ( KBP ) 1500 - 0210+1 Colombo (CMB) 16 763
VV176 Colombo ( CMB ) 0340 -  0910 Kiev (KBP) 7 763
VV176 Colombo (CMB) 0440 - 1000 Kiev (KBP) 2 763

The UIA flight schedule
PS383 KBP1420 - 2020AUH2120 - 0315+1CMB 37 738
PS384 CMB0415 - 0810AUH0930 - 1355KBP 14 738


Photo by Dimitry.Maps generated by the Great Circle Mapper - copyright © Karl L. Swartz.

Gulf Air to launch Kabul

By
Miyuru Sandaruwan
 on March 23, 2011 6:50 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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 Gulf Air, effective 15th June 2011, will be launching service to Kabul, Afghanistan. Services will operate four times a week on board Airbus A320 aircraft. The schedule is below

GF742 BAH 1115 - 1550 KBL Mo, We, Fr, Su 320
GF741 KBL 1650 - 1845 BAH Mo, We, Fr, Su 320

Announcing the route, Gulf Air Chief Executive Officer Mr. Samer Majali said, "The launching of our service to Kabul follows extensive safety and security audits, and further demonstrates our strategy to connect the Kingdom of Bahrain with niche and under-served markets within the region that have high growth potential."

 As of this writing, no airline flies between Bahrain and Kabul.

Etihad to start flights to Maldives

By
Miyuru Sandaruwan
 on March 22, 2011 6:42 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)


 Etihad Airways effective 1st November will be launching flights to Malé International Airport, Maldives. The flights will operate daily on board Airbus A32O aircraft. Schedule below

EY278 AUH 0915 - 1430 MLE D 320
EY279 MLE 2040 - 0005+1 AUH D 320

 Etihad at present codeshares with SriLankan on the latter's flights to Malé from Colombo.

Air India Returns to Sri Lanka

By
Miyuru Sandaruwan
 on March 21, 2011 4:17 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
 After a long hiatus of decades, Air India will finally be resuming service to Sri Lanka from Summer. The carrier will fly to Colombo from Chennai six times a week starting 27th March.
 The service operates with Airbus A321 aircraft.
Schedule below
AI273 MAA 1415 - 1535 CMB x3 321
AI274 CMB 1635 - 1800 MAA x3 321

 The airline will face tough competition on the route which is already served with over seven daily flights from Jet Airways, Kingfisher, Spicejet and SriLankan in addition to AI's own Air India Express.SriLankan is the largest operator on the route offering 3293 weekly one-way seats on 15 frequencies.
 Air India subsidiary Indian ( soon to come under AI AOC, reported by The Networker on 7/02/11 ) was serving this route till late 2010.

Update: The airline has already begun operating this route as AI1573/4.

EXCLUSIVE: SriLankan Airlines to Launch Moscow from December

By
Miyuru Sandaruwan
 on March 14, 2011 5:50 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
      SriLankan A330 SriLankan to MoscowSriLankan Airlines, from 23 December 2011, will be launching service to Moscow Domodedovo from Colombo. The service will operate three times weekly ( on Wed, Fri and Sun ) on-board Airbus A330-200 aircraft via Abu Dhabi. The route is already available on reservation systems ( with sales due to open soon). It is one of the routes that UL has ever uploaded to reservation systems with such a long time in advance for the launch, which goes on to show the importance of the carrier's first ever route launch into Russia.

UL531 CMB 0430 - 1400 DME 357 332 ( via AUH )
UL532 DME 1600 - 0405+1 CMB 357 332 ( via AUH )

[ Key: CMB = Colombo Bandaranaike Airport, DME = Moscow Domodedovo Airport, 357= Days of op= Wed, Fri, Sun, 332= Airbus A330-200, AUH = Abu Dhabi ]

 The Networker however realises that the above timings are not possible and it should change in a manner similar to the following
UL531 CMB 0430 - 0735AUH0835- 1300 DME 357 332
UL532 DME 1500 - 2115AUH2215 - 0405+1 CMB 357 332

 As per an exclusive comment by the airline to this website, the flight timings are subject to change hence the present schedule discrepancies.

 The flights are scheduled to operate in timings similar to SriLankan's present morning Abu Dhabi flight ( UL211 A320 CMB ETD 0425; UL531 A330 CMB ETD 0430 ) and its partner Etihad's present Moscow flight ( EY69 A320 DME ETA 1315 ; UL532 A330 DME ETA 1400 ) - however it is not yet clear whether the airlines will replace the above flights with the new flight.

 The flight provides very good connections to all of SriLankan's Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia destinations, both ways. 

( From an aviation enthusiast point of view, the airline sadly has used an old flight number ( ex ARN ) for this new rout, however nevertheless I am happy that they opted to launch the route with same frequency ( update: The route is now shown as thrice weekly ) as well as a similar routing to that I suggested ;-) )

Photo by elevationair

Qatar Airways to launch Sofia and Kolkata

By
Miyuru Sandaruwan
 on March 9, 2011 3:37 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
 Along with the announcement for launch of flights to Oslo today, Qatar Airways has also revealed that it will be launching flights to Sofia, Bulgaria and Kolkata, India. In addition, flights to Budapest will switch to nonstop effective September 14th.

Doha - Kolkata
Flights will launch 27th July and will operate daily on board Airbus A320 aircraft.

QR 294 DOH 1940 - 0310+1 CCU
QR 295 CCU 0410 - 0700 DOH

Doha - Sofia
Flights will launch on 14th September and will operate four-times a week via Bucharest on board Airbus A320 aircraft.

QR 943 Doh 0825 - 1530 Sofia (SOF), Sofia, Bulgaria Terminal 1 1 stop flying time 7:05h   Monday Wednesday Friday Saturday
QR 944 SOF 1730 - 2355 DOH 1 stop flying time 6:25hrs  Monday Wednesday Friday Saturday

Doha - Budapest
Present flight via Bucharest switches to a daily nonstop flight effective 14th September on board Airbus A320 aircraft.

QR 947 DOH 0900 - 1300 BUD
QR 948 BUD 1730 - 2345 DOH

Qatar Airways to launch Oslo flights from October

By
Miyuru Sandaruwan
 on March 9, 2011 12:30 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)
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 Qatar Airways has just updated on GDS systems that they will be launching flights to Oslo, Norway from 5th October, 2011 onwards. The service will operate five times a week on board two class A330-200 aircraft.

Schedule below

QR953 Doha (DOH) 0825 - 1440 Oslo (OSL) x16 332
QR954 Oslo (OSL) 16:10 - 2355 Doha (DOH) x16 332

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