18/07/2022
Dubai-based budget carrier flydubai, which suspended flights to Sri Lanka citing recent local developments, is expected to resume its operations tomorrow (18).
The Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka confirmed the resumption of flights to The Sunday Morning Business on Thursday (14), noting that the Russian airline Aeroflot was also expected to resume flights to Sri Lanka soon, but was being delayed due to the jet fuel shortage.
On Monday (11), Gulf News quoted a flydubai spokesperson who stated that flights between Dubai and Colombo Airport (CMB) had been suspended from 10 July until further notice, after protests escalated in Sri Lanka.
“We will continue to closely monitor the situation on the ground in Sri Lanka,” the flydubai spokesperson had told Gulf News.
The spokesperson also said that passengers who had booked tickets on the suspended flights would be contacted and offered a refund.
Flydubai, legally Dubai Aviation Corporation, is an Emirati Government-owned low-cost airline in Dubai, the UAE, with its Head Office and flight operations in Terminal 2 of Dubai International Airport.
Sri Lanka has been facing a massive jet fuel shortage, which has to date forced as many as 100 flights from SriLankan Airlines to be refuelled at the Trivandrum, Chennai, and Cochin airports in India, according to Bharat Petroleum.
According to Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera, a diesel shipment is set to arrive in Sri Lanka between 15 and 17 July, while a petrol shipment is due between 22 and 24 July.
The Morning
