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4 January 2008
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SINGAPORE CHANGI AIRPORT WELCOMES MIHIN LANKA
Singapore is the airline’s second international destination in South East Asia
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The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) held a ceremony today
to officially welcome Mihin Lanka, an airline from Sri Lanka, to operate at
Singapore Changi Airport.
Mihin Lanka is the second international carrier from Sri Lanka to mount flights
to Singapore. The state-owned airline first began operating six weekly flights
between Singapore and Colombo on 24 September 2007 with Airbus 321 aircraft.
At the welcome ceremony, CAAS’ Director-General and CEO, Mr Lim Kim
Choon said, “The launch of Mihin Lanka’s services comes at an opportune time as
passenger traffic between Singapore and Sri Lanka has grown by 30% over the past
years to reach 275,000 movements for the first 11 months of 2007. Between
January and November 2007, there were over 70,000 visitor arrivals from Sri Lanka,
representing a robust 10% growth year-on-year.”4 Mr Lim further expressed confidence that the visitor arrivals from Sri Lanka to
Singapore would grow further in the coming years, boosted by new tourism
developments in Singapore such as the Singapore Flyer, Formula 1 Grand Prix and
the Integrated Resorts.
Mihin Lanka is the fourth airline to operate flight services between
Colombo and Singapore. The other three airlines are Singapore Airlines,
Sri Lankan Airlines and Emirates. This brings the number of weekly
passenger flights on the route to a total of 42.
Changi Airport is currently served by 81 scheduled airlines, operating
over 4,300 weekly scheduled flights to 189 cities in 60 countries.
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22 September 2007
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MIHINLANKA LAUNCHES SINGAPORE SERVICES FROM 24TH SEPTEMBER 2007
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Mihin Lanka is delighted to announce their 7th destination “Singapore” which will commence its operation on the 24th of September 2007 with thrice a week services between Colombo and Singapore.
It is our intention to establish and strengthen our presence into Far East, Asia & the Middle East . This will give an excellent opportunity for travelers, holiday makers, and businessman to take advantage of our extremely competitive fares and excellent onboard service.
Mihin Lanka with its inception into Singapore is opening a new door of opportunity for people to travel, and by making use of the competitive fares to take more spending money with them to the destination rather than spend it all on the air fare. This we are sure would enhance trade ,investment and tourism between the two countries as well. Mihin Lanks is proud to be able to be a stake holder in such synergies.
Mihin Lanka now flies to seven destinations, Dubai, Trichy, Trivandrum, Bodhgaya, Bangkok, Maldives and Singapore. This reflects a strong growth in a period of four months from the inception of the air line.
We are offering fares on economy class and Business class at very competitive prices while flying MJ 601 out of Colombo International Airport at 0550 hrs on every Monday, Wednesday & Friday & arriving in Singapore at1250 hrs. The return flight MJ 602 leaves Singapore at 1355 hrs & arrives in Colombo at 1555 hrs.
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01 August 2007
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Mihin Lanka, the Government owned Airline today announced its plans to expand operations to Buddhagaya in India.TheBudget Carrier will launch its new nonstop weekly services between Colombo and Gaya on 02 September with Airbus A320 Aircraft in two class configuration
The new service to Buddhagaya comes keeping in line with Mihin Lanka’s philosophy,
“Opening new Vistas to the people to explore and experience the wonders of the World”.Buddhagaya becomes Mihin Lanka’s sixth destination on the route network offering affordable air fares and unique onboard services
“ We are excited about expanding our services to Buddhagaya,one of the most important and sacred Buddhist pilgrimage centres in the world and bringing our growing network to the Indian state of Bihar” said Sugath Rajapakse,Head of Commercial for Mihin Lanka.
Gaya becomes the third Indian City to be served from Colombo following the launch of flights to India two months ago
Mihin Lanka flight MJ305 leaves Colombo International Airport at 12.40 P.M on every Sunday arriving in Gaya at 04.00 P.M.The return flight MJ306 leaves Gaya at 05.00 P.M
And arrives in Colombo at 08.20 P.M
Mihin Lanka currently operates scheduled flights to Middle East,South Asian Sub Continent and the Far east
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