Recently SriLankan Airlines was also named the Best Airline Operator from South Asia for the fifth consecutive year at the annual KLIA Awards in Malaysia which honours contributions to Malaysia’s travel and tourism industry.

Travel between Singapore and Sri Lanka has grown by 55% in the first six months of 2010. Mr. Mohan Meegolle, SriLankan Airlines Country Manager in Singapore has said that Singapore is one of the most important hubs for SriLankan Airlines’ global operations.  Sri Lankan Airlines has a global route network of 49 destinations in 39 countries.

On the first of this month it launched a new service to Shanghai.  SriLankan connects Singapore with 10 weekly flights from Colombo, which is highly popular among leisure travelers, businessmen, students bound for higher education in Singapore, and also Indian travelers catching connecting flights from South Indian cities such as Chennai, Trichy and Trivandrum.

In addition, passengers bound for Colombo from other countries such as Indonesia, Australia and New Zealand are also routed via Singapore.SriLankan is one of 89 airlines operating to Changi Airport of Singapore, connecting Changi to more than 200 cities in 60 countries. Changi Airport, which handled 37.2 million passengers annually, recorded 16.7% growth in passenger traffic and 17.3% in freight last year.(NLK)