SriLankan Airlines introduces double daily flights to Mumbai

Capitalising on the increased tourist arrival rate from India, national carrier SriLankan Airlines announced it has introduced double daily flights between Colombo and Mumbai.
While the move will multiply the convenience for passengers travelling to and from India’s financial and entertainment capital, it will give a 50 percent boost to SriLankan’s capacity on its Mumbai route, SriLankan Airlines said in a statement.
The airline expressed confidence in the increased capacity, strengthening SriLankan’s already vast network in India.

Flights UL 142 and UL 144 will depart daily from Mumbai to Colombo at 3:10hrs and 20:45hrs, respectively. Flights UL 141 and UL 143 from Colombo to Mumbai will depart at 23:45hrs and 17:10hrs.
The passengers travelling out of Mumbai on SriLankan Airlines will now have the advantage of more flight options to Colombo and convenient connections via Colombo to popular destinations in the Far East, Europe and Australia, including Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Melbourne and Sydney.
“The Indian market has been incredibly important to SriLankan Airlines since the get-go and with India fast becoming one of the world’s largest outbound travel markets.
Our frequency increase comes on the heels of Sri Lanka announcing free visa for Indian visitors and we hope that these positive developments will encourage more travellers from Mumbai to stop by Sri Lanka,” said SriLankan Airlines Head of Worldwide Sales and Distribution Dimuthu Tennakoon.
India is the only country with nine cities featured in SriLankan Airlines’ network. This includes Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kochi, Trivandrum, Chennai, Trichy and Madurai in addition to Mumbai, to which altogether SriLankan operates close to 100 flights every week.
India continues to rank as the largest tourist traffic generator for Sri Lanka.
For the first 11 months of 2023, Sri Lanka welcomed 258,871 visitors from India, which is 20 percent of the total arrivals for the year.