India’s SpiceJet from 09OCT10 is launching its first International service
India’s SpiceJet will expand its services to Sri Lanka starting from 9th October this year.
The airline through news paper advertisements today announced that it will operate flights from Colombo to Chennai and Chennai to Colombo.
The first flight will leave to Chennai from Colombo at 03.15 am on the 9th of October.
Apart from SpiceJet, Jetair too announced earlier of its plans to launch Charter flights to Sri Lanka from Brussels, starting from next month.
Since the defeat of the LTTE by the armed forces in May 2009, 4 new international airlines have already started operations to Sri Lanka.
Air Asia, Fly Dubai, Oman Air and Indian Express are those airlines.
Booming tourism arrivals to the country following the end of the conflict is the major reason behind the interest shown by these airlines.
During the 1st 7 months of this year Sri Lanka has seen its visitor numbers climbing by 47% to stand at 341,991 compared to just 229,952 arrivals reported during the same period last year.
Sri Lanka Tourism hopes the annual figure will run up to 550,000 visitors by the end of 2010.
SpiceJet announced the appointment of its first General Sales Agency in Sri Lanka. Jetwing Air (Pvt) Ltd.
| About Jetwing: |
| Jetwing is one of Sri Lanka's leading travel service providers with offices across the world. It has over 10 years of experience servicing the Indian market. The Jetwing Group is headed by Hiran Cooray, Chairman Designate of Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) 2010/2011. The Airline Division is headed by Sunil Peiris, former Chief Marketing Officer, SriLankan Airlines and Chief Operating Officer, Air Lanka. Jetwing represent 12 International Airlines as its General Sales Agents in Sri Lanka and own and manage over 8% of the Countrys Hotel rooms |
| About SpiceJet Ltd.: |
| SpiceJet is India's most preferred Low Fare Airline, delivering the lowest air fares with the highest consumer value. We operate 125 flights daily to 18 cities viz. Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bagdogra, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Guwahati, Goa, Hyderabad, Jammu, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Srinagar, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam. Our on-time performance is amongst the best in India and coupled with a Technical Dispatch Reliability of 99.6%, making us an airline with least cancellations. SpiceJet's new generation fleet of 19 Boeing 737-800 / 737-900ER aircraft are backed by cutting edge technology and infrastructure to ensure the highest standards in safety and operating efficiency. |
| SpiceJet is the winner of: |
- National Award (ICWAI) for excellence in Cost Management (March 2009), New Delhi
- 2008 Frost & Sullivan Indian Commercial Aviation Emerging Company of the Year Award (Nov 2008) London
- Smart Travel Asia's Top 10 Best Budget Airlines in Asia (Sept 2008) Hong Kong
- Outlook Traveler's Best Low Cost Airline (Feb 2008) India
- TAFI – Abacus's Best Low Cost Airline (Sept 2007) Malaysia
- "CIO 100 Award" for IT efforts for customer satisfaction and business growth(2007 & 2008)
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India’s SpiceJet from 09OCT10 is launching its first International service, operating Daily Chennai -Colombo service with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
Schedule below:
SG001 MAA ETD 0045 – 0215 CMB ETA 737 Daily
SG002 CMB ETD 0315 – 0435 MAA ETA 737 Daily
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