SRILANKAN AIRLINES, managed and 40% owned by Emirates, is to acquire seven more aircraft in an ambitious growth plan that will increase flights to existing destinations, open new routes and launch air taxi services within Sri Lanka. Two Cessna Caravan aircraft will join the fleet in November, as the airline prepares to launch amphibious domestic services, not dissimilar to operations in the Maldive Islands to the south west but using inland waterways. Also new will be a further two Airbus A340 and a pair of Airbus A320. With this expansion the airline”s fleet will comprise of five Airbus A340s, four A330s, five A320s, two Antonov AN12s (cargo), and the two Cessna Caravans. With the arrival of the extra Airbus A340s the winter 2003 schedule sees 11 weekly flights to London, five to Zurich, four to Paris, three to Frankfurt, and daily flights to Kuala Lumpur.
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