Good availability on SriLankan Airlines MEL-CMB

[Mattg]

I notice SriLankan Airlines is adding a second flight from Melbourne to Colombo in August, running on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. So, it will have 10x weekly MEL-CMB flights. The new flight connects really nicely to UL's CMB-LHR services.

I'm seeing lots of J availability (at least for 1 passenger) on the new MEL-CMB flights. Not so much on CMB-LHR, but you might get lucky.

 

[OZDUCK]

On a purely selfish basis I wish they would do something like a bi-weekly flight to Perth. I am sure it would probably not be of value to the airline but it would make a nice easy way for us to track down some my wife's roots amongst the Dutch & French employees of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (Dutch East India Company) who lived there in the mid 17th to late 19th C.

 

[Saab34]

like a bi-weekly flight to Perth

Sri Lankan still have many NEOs not flying so sadly likely not anytime soon.

Jetstar could run this with a 321LR? They seemed to opt for Thailand routes instead.

SriLanka and India are two underserved markets I think from Australia.

 

[SYD]

Sri Lankan still have many NEOs not flying so sadly likely not anytime soon.

Jetstar could run this with a 321LR? They seemed to opt for Thailand routes instead.

SriLanka and India are two underserved markets I think from Australia.

Even if QF slapped their code on the UL flights that could help expand the service. At the moment, to fly SYD-CMB on a QF code is a UL codeshare ex SIN, CX codeshare ex HKG or 6E codeshare ex BLR (from what I can see)?

Pity CMB is probably a tad too far west to maybe help replace some the 3K destinations if QF (or JQ) put on some direct flights.

Looking at the regional map, not a lot of healthy regional options to fly onto via CMB…other than India, but that’s covered by 6E.