Sri Lankan Airlines starting direct flights between Kathmandu-Colombo from Tuesday
KATHMANDU, August 29: Direct flights between Nepal and Sri Lanka are resuming from Tuesday after a hiatus of four decades.
Sri Lankan Ambassador to Nepal Himalee Arunatilaka informed that Sri Lankan Airlines is resuming direct flights between Colombo and Kathmandu starting August 31. "To all those friends in Nepal who have been asking me when direct flights will starts; it's happening on 31 August 2021," she tweeted on Saturday.
The then Royal Nepal Airlines used to operate regular direct flights between Kathmandu-Colombo sector some four decades ago. However, the flights were suspended as they were not commercially viable.
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