SriLankan to fly to Coimbatore

SriLankan Airlines will begin flight operations to Coimbatore on October 29, making the industrial town the airline’s 11th destination in the country. A release quoting the airline’s chief executive officer Peter Hill on Wednesday said the airline would initially operate four flights a week, on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, using Airbus A0-320. At present, it has services to Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikode, Kochi, Chennai and Trichirappalli in the South. A short 70-minute flight from Coimbatore would bring travellers to Colombo, where the airline has rapid connections to its global network of 54 destinations in 28 countries. — Staff Reporter