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Srilankan Airlines
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SriLankan Airlines
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | This article may be written from a fan 's point of view, rather than a neutral point of view. Please clean it up to conform to a higher standard of quality, and to make it neutral in tone. (January 2012) |

SriLankan Airlines | | IATA
UL | ICAO
ALK | Callsign
SRILANKAN | | Founded | 1947 (as Air Ceylon) | Commenced operations | July 1979 | Hubs | * Bandaranaike International Airport * Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport | Focus cities | * Suvarnabhumi Airport(Bangkok) * Kelani River-Peliyagoda Waterdrome (colombo) | Frequent-flyer program | FlySmiLes | Airport lounge | Serendib Lounge | Alliance | Oneworld (joining in November 2013) | Subsidiaries | Mihin Lanka | Fleet size | 23 (+ 6 Orders)[1][2][3][4][5] | Destinations | 61 (+13 planned)[4][6] | Company slogan | You 're Our World | Headquarters | Airline Centre,
Bandaranaike International Airport,,
Katunayake, Sri Lanka[7] | Key people | Nishantha Wickramasinghe (Chairman)[8]
Kapila Chandrasena (CEO)[8] | Website | www.srilankan.com |

Srilankan Airlines Airbus A320 parked atTiruchirappalli Airport (VOTR)
SriLankan Airlines Limited (Sinhala:ශ්‍රී ලන්කන් ගුවන් සේවය, Tamil: சிறீலங்கன் எயர்லைன்ஸ்) (previously known as Air Lanka) is the flag carrier of Sri Lanka. It operates to destinations in Asia and Europe from its base and hub at Bandaranaike International Airport in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. The airline 's head office is in the Airline Centre, on the grounds of Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake, Sri Lanka.[9] However in recent times since the Government of Sri Lanka has taken over the authourity of the service, there is a drastic loss of quality in terms of cabin crew service and airport service to passengers. Many passengers have been reported in survey sites complaining about the lack of quality service that it had,


References: Air Lanka Boeing 747–200 at Basle Airport (1984) Airlanka 's first Airbus A320 4R-ABA Airlanka 's Lockheed Tristar A Boeing 707-312B at Gatwick Airport(1981)
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