CY to start flights to Sri Lanka

CYPRUS Airways (CY) will start flights from Larnaca to Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, via Dubai, from November 18, the airline announced yesterday.

The flights will run twice weekly on Tuesdays and Saturday, and fly out the same day from Dubai. The entire flight time from Larnaca to Colombo is just under eight and a half hours.

CY is taking advantage of Dubai’s Fifth-Freedom rights, which allows the airline to carry passengers in and out of Dubai from third destinations and not necessarily including Larnaca.

The airline has already begun operating twice-weekly flights between Dubai and Beirut and hopes to up the number of these flights. CY is also in negotiations with India for flights to Bombay but nothing definite has been agreed as yet.

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