Flights and Travel guide of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is in Southern Asia. It is an island country in the Indian Ocean, south of India. Sri Lanka has many cities and towns. There are plenty of airlines offering flights to Sri Lanka from major UK airports including London Heathrow, Birmingham, Manchester, Aberdeen, Belfast, Glasgow, Cardiff, New Castle, London Gatwick. Srilankan Airlines is a national flagship carrier operating to and from Colombo-Bandaranayake. Flights are available from origins throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, the Middle East, India, and Pakistan. SL also flies to the nearby resort areas of Goa, India and the Maldives. Sri Lankan also code shares with Emirates Airlines of the United Arab Emirates. This allows for connections from places SL doesn’t fly to itself such as North America. Qatar Airways had become a popular choice from Europe to Sri Lanka by 2008, and the Indian carrier Kingfisher Airlines further improved choice in early 2009 when it opened a Bangalore route to Colombo that enabled easy links to Sri Lanka from the Uk via India. The majority of Sri Lankans speak Sinhala, with Tamil as the second language. English is commonly used by government and ...