KOREAN Air’s flights between Seoul and Colombo, Sri Lanka restarted on Saturday (TTG Asia e-Daily, December 7, 2013) as part of a triangle route including Malé in the Maldives.
The new thrice weekly flights depart Malé every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, operated by an Airbus A330-300 with 276 seats, including six first class sleeper seats and 18 sleeper seats in business class.
Chang Hoon Chi, president and COO, Korean Air, said: “It is a great pleasure for me to announce that Korean Air has restarted its service to Sri Lanka and has also extended the route so that it now flies to the Maldives.”
The flights depart Malé at 15.30, arrive in Colombo at 17.30 and depart Colombo at 18.50, touching down in Seoul’s Incheon International Airport at 06.10 the next day.
On the return leg, the aircraft will take off from Seoul at 22.40, arrive in Colombo at 04.10 the following day, leave Colombo at 05.40 and reach Malé at 06.40.
